About Time!

Almost a month after the devastating tsunami struck South Asia, the United Nations is finally getting around to distributing supplies on its own.

The US had been delivering aid within 48 hours.

But, you wouldn't have known it from the mainstream media's portrayal of the US response as being slow - particularly with a lack of public statements from the Administration.

For those in the region, they saw deeds trump action.

So, the media now wants to find a way to complain that the US handoff of aid relief to others is coming too fast.

An American admiral dismissed fears that the U.S. military is ending its relief effort for tsunami victims too soon, as a U.N. agency delivered aid on its own for the first time Sunday — a sign of civilian groups preparing to fill the gap as militaries pull out. Indonesia raised its death toll from the disaster by as many as 7,000 people.

U.S. military helicopters from the USS Abraham Lincoln's five-ship battle group have been vital in getting aid to remote towns and villages in the ravaged western coast of Indonesia's Aceh province, cut off when roads were torn up and bridges crushed by the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami.

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