I know this is stretching the imagination but what if the disaster is the world's way (or God or whatever you believe) of bringing people together, of saying: This is another chance to get it right. Sept. 11 brought the world together but it was short lived. The event drove a wedge between America and the rest of the world. America went on the defense instead of grasping its new place in the world. Now this, another chance for the world to come together, to notice that the world is a small place, to see the greatness of other countries -- the Thai helping the tourists, for example -- and that humans are so fragile and Mother Nature can do more to us than we could ever do to ourselves.
