Current tsunamis in Asia, What should be done? Options

[comeupon]

With the current death toll and fear of outbreaking epidemic what should be done by the countries affected, mainly India, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and the Maldives --less than a 100 reported deaths. At this point and time the rescue workers in some of the highly affected areas are not even stopping to identify or transport dead bodies but rather burning them on the spot. Many small islands have been burnt completely because of whole villages being killed off. Technically the affected countries cant close their borders yet because of the attempts by rescue personal to get some sick and injured people to safety. People however continually keep going to these ransacked places for vacations. Thailand and the Maldives being really the only 2 as they suffered the least amount of casualties. Some travel companies are refusing to return fares, mainly in Russia and some other parts of the former USSR. Should these travelers/tourists be let out of the country after they have arrived and spent a week there? If they are released from the country there could a spread of diseases like Cholera and Maleria, caused by the dead bodies laying on the beach for 3-4 days in temperatures of 90+ degrees. The bodies have become bloated and infected (pic). It probably would not become as big of a epidemic as the Black Plague, but a widespread of Cholera or Maleria could really hurt a lot of the big cities in Europe. Though if all travel in and out of these countries is brought to a halt the percentage of sick people could keep increasing and increasing. Just looking for some opinions on some international matters, and yes I know the picture is kind of gruesome but I feel the American media does a poor job covering this topic.

[sammi rules you]

1) we are helping. we don't HAVE to, but we are, and more than most other countries. we ARE giving a LOT of money. just because spain is giving more doesn't mean we need to give more just because we have more.
2) not every american family is rich. not all of us do have a lot of money. there are poor people here just as there are poor people in other countries. there are also rich people here, just as there are rich people in other countries. american families only take home more money than some other families in other countries because of the customs exchange. an american dollar is worth more than a lot of other types of money. however, that does NOT mean we have more money. we have to buy food and clothes and other things and they cost more than they do in other countries.
3) we are in a war. we're not going to be sending even half of our military equipment over to southeast asia. we need our military for US. our military will serve US before ANYONE ELSE. that's why it's OUR military. yes, humanitarianism is good, but OUR military will serve US first and i'm sure any other country would do the same. therefore, no, we should NOT use our military to help other countries until we finish what we need first.

[comeupon]

1) we are helping. we don't HAVE to, but we are, and more than most other countries. we ARE giving a LOT of money. just because spain is giving more doesn't mean we need to give more just because we have more.

Actually thats where you are wrong, America does have to help in this situation. America has made itself the country everybody falls back on when something bad happens. That is the result of using our military to threaten any leader to get whatever we want. For the things we get we promise to help the rest of the world. Had America not contributed to this incident than the countries approval rating would plummet faster than the national debt. The fact that a country which has about 40 times less money than we do gives so much shows a lot about what kind of condition our country is in. I wouldnt be surprised if those Arab Emirate countries started dishing out some serious money just to show us up

Look at Africa. It's been ravaged by famine and war for several decades but we still don't help them (not as much as needed). But one incident over there, caused numerous countries to help.

The two things cant realy be compared, while Africa has been warring for a long time so has the Middle East, war is on those things that you cant really aid without joing the fight yourself. Africa has never had a massive loss of life like this, were talking about over 150,000 people. This could turn out to be the biggest natural disaster ever when all of these costal countries finally manage to get to every single island that has been populated. Those islands are gone with everyone on them. These islands could easily have anywhere from 5,000 - 100,000 people on each one. Countries usually always help out in times of natural disaster but it goes unnoticed because the damage was never nearly close enough to this and the donations are never $35 million.