Tsunami aid total only adds insult to injury

I AM appalled at the response of our Government, and the other rich nations of the world, to the people who have suffered in the tsunami disaster.

Two billion dollars offered to these devastated people collectively by the well-heeled First World while UNICEF, in its recently-published annual report, stated that these same countries spent $960 billion on armaments and weaponry in 2004.

We spend 480 times more killing people (eg, Iraq, 128,000 dead, two million injured) than in helping the survivors of an unprecedented natural disaster.