Indeed. I found the premise of the article to be wanting for the same reason. I mean, what's the more complex explanation: We don't treat the Pakistani floods

Indeed. I found the premise of the article to be wanting for the same reason. I mean, what's the more complex explanation: We don't treat the Pakistani floods on an equal measure with other disasters because we (the international community) dislike Pakistan? Or is it that the Pakistani disaster just hasn't had as much reporting and coverage? I was in India as of a week ago. Even there, where Pakistan is both mentally and physically closer, the floods were barely getting any coverage at all. The news was dominated by a corruption scandal in the Organizing Committee for the Commonwealth Games. If the floods can't get coverage in India, what makes you think that they'd get anything other a single paragraph buried deep in the newspaper here?