The Taliban doesn't present a current "terrorist threat" to the US, other than via the training camps it used to run in Afghanistan. US (and UK) troops are there in an attempt, most likely doomed, to erect a democratic government supported by those tribal warlords who've accepted the bribes offered by Bush and now Obama. As for the Taliban acting as a religious context for Al Queda, the latter uses religion as a beard; its real ideological backers live in Saudi Arabia (an alleged ally of the US last time I checked).
Yes, that's a lot of people hit by a natural disaster which has nothing to do with the United States.
Other than being fellow humans on the same planet. Maybe you and I place different emphasis on geographical borders.
Once again the Islamic nations are showing their usual lack of generosity towards their neighbors.
If you mean the Arab nations, that's quite possibly true (I haven't the time right now to check what specific contribution they've made via the UN effort), but historically, they see themselves as separate from other nations with a largely muslim population. After all, you wouldn't expect Italy to launch a massive rescue mission after an earthquake in, say, Argentina, purely because both are predominantly catholic nations.
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Yes, that's a lot of people hit by a natural disaster which has nothing to do with the United States.
Other than being fellow humans on the same planet. Maybe you and I place different emphasis on geographical borders.
Once again the Islamic nations are showing their usual lack of generosity towards their neighbors.
If you mean the Arab nations, that's quite possibly true (I haven't the time right now to check what specific contribution they've made via the UN effort), but historically, they see themselves as separate from other nations with a largely muslim population. After all, you wouldn't expect Italy to launch a massive rescue mission after an earthquake in, say, Argentina, purely because both are predominantly catholic nations.