international community to help

International community steps up
We'll hear charges from the Right that the international community hasn't stepped up to help the U.S. Neal Cavuto has alread done so. But here's the reality:

The State Department said offers so far had come from Belgium, Canada, Russia, Japan, France, Germany, Britain, China, Australia, Jamaica, Honduras, Greece, Venezuela, the Organization of American States, NATO, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, South Korea, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

The United Nations has offered to coordinate the effort.

Note that Bush rejected all such help yesterday morning, though apparently the State Department has decided to bypass Bush's "America takes care of its own!" macho talk and actually accept the aid. Thanfully, Rice finally decided to get back to work in lieu of more thousand-dollar shoe-buying sprees in New York.
(From MyDD.)

(Daily Kos)