Hurricane Katrina

When the tsunami occurred, nations worldwide responded immediately within 24 hours, gathering food supplies and raising much-needed monetary funds for Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka.

The US offered their help, pledging US$35 million. They subsequently increased this promised amount tenfold, to US$350 million.

Even Singapore immediately had food collection centres set up to collect supplies from Singaporeans.

Now, even as Hurricane Katrina has passed by for at least 4 days, nothing seems to have been done by the various nations in the rest of the world.

Even Singapore is only reporting about the disaster; nothing about any local efforts made to raise funds for the US of A.

So what is the difference here?

It's a superpower on the globe that is in trouble here.