Your corelation between political freedom and change is incorrect here. There was no real hatred for the US even when they did NOT have political freedom.Track back to the days of Suharto. They were more or less pro West. Its only around 2001 that anti US sentiments increased.

Another volunteer, Irfan Haider, was more circumspect. “America always helps, like they did during the tsunami,” he said, referring to the assistance given by the U.S. military to areas of Indonesia, Thailand and other nations hit by the devastating waves that killed tens of thousands of people last December. “But I think the U.S. should not help Israel. America’s politics are still a problem,” Haider said.

U.S. Choppers Ferry Injured From Pakistan

Not surprising that there has been a somewhat underwhelming response in aid.

According to this WashPo article, the usually benevolent American public arent flinging many coins at Pakistan. Donor fatigue? Perhaps, but I think the public’s less than estimable perception of Pakistan has a ‘lil to do with it.

ah the joys of democracy and capitalism… we can just buy our support from others around the world. excellent, smithers.

getting off the cynical bandwagon, i actually think this statistic is pretty impressive… it might be a sign of people buying into the benefits of political freedoms that will eventually motivate change in the country

A few miles to the north of the disaster zone there is a large fleet of helicopters belonging to the Western armies occupying parts of Afghanistan. Why could the US, German and British commanders not dispatch these to save lives? Is the war so fierce that these were needed every single day? Five days after the earthquake, the US released 8 helicopters from war duty to help transport food and water to isolated villages. Too little, too late. The Pakistan Army has been put into action, but armies here and elsewhere, are not suited to relief effort. They are not trained to save lives and reports today that aid convoys are being attacked and seized by angry crowds long before they reach their destination is an indication of the chaos. Even in normal times the poor have limited access to doctors and nurses. The state-of-the-art hospitals in the big cities are exclusively for the wealthy. The shortage of medical staff has been a curse for the last fifty years.[Link]

One does not use the words “fundies” and “thinking” in the same sentence.

M. Nam

Highly doubtful that the wannabe Western jihadists will change their twisted thinking. This guy’s own mother was rescued from the WTC … you can see how it inspired him: Mohammed Junaid Babar .

So much for the much-vaunted “global unity of the Ummah (especially against the ‘infidel’)”….

I hope all those wannabe jihadists out there — especially those born and brought up in the West — are taking notice of the fact that the very people they despise are the ones who are a) sending on-the-ground manpower and b) in the cases of ordinary citizens, have volunteered/raised — and are continuing to raise — millions of pounds/dollars to help the victims of this disaster. Plus of course the larger sums donated by the various Western governments.

If the fundies have any decency and integrity at all then they’ll do some serious thinking about all this.