[ScaniaBoy]

You are quite right. The Swedes are furious with the inept handling of the crisis by our government. It wasn't the PM but the FM that went to the theatre 12 h after the crisis had started after telling the media that all Swedish tourists in the area were safe. (At the moment 3500 are missing!)

I don't know which thread you were thinking of but try this one (see my comment #16):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1310392/posts

[streetrepair]

Here are a couple more stories to prove your liberal friend dead wrong:

U.S. Navy, Marines Swing Into Action on Sumatra

U.S. Ships, Aircraft, Personnel Converge on Disaster Zone