"Al Dykes" wrote
Coverage on NPR radio a few minutes ago said the Pentagon figured out
there was going big wave pretty quickly and gave a heads up to every
military base. They said the word went out in just a few minutes.

Yep. There's a conclusion that took multi-billion $ computers to arrive at:
A 9.0 earthquake in an area with a history of earthquakes and tsunamis -
might mean a wave is coming.....this is called THINKING.

And the affected countries are complaining they were not warned? What more
warning could they get than instant radio and television news of a major
earthquake? What difference could it have made if moments before it arrived,
their governments had said "yes, as predicted by the 9.0 earthquake an hour
ago, a tidal-wave is here"? Worldwide news gets stories like a major
earthquake out immediately. What people do with that news is up to them.
Therefore the governments of various S.E. Asian countries complaining that
no one "gave" them sophisticated tsunami-warning equipment is a pantload of
crap from irresponsible officials who share the blame for high death tolls
because they failed to get the word out immediately after the earthquake.

Jack Painter
Virginia Beach Virginia