Tsunami: Is the UN is irrelevant?

First Jan Egeland says the donations by wealthy nations is stingy and then the UN says that nations are generous? (See above) Well, which way is it? An important leader of the UN makes a stupid stingy comment and then the UN comes back to supply some damage control. What are you afraid of UN? Pissing off America again? Maybe that is why we are in Iraq alone with Great Britain, Australia and Poland. ( I know there are others) Maybe if you did the right thing once and didn't screw up something like the Oil for Food program, for example. You only made the World's Enemies stronger.

There are many blogs popping up regarding this "stingy"issue. For example, ranging from how poorly the US government (Bush) is reacting to defense of the US Government's donation track record. Yet, it has become another way to keep the election going for the libs. It's over you lost, sorry you aren't happy, move on... or maybe... show some support to your country and President

The news out of the disaster stricken area is over whelming with news changing daily. In my opinion, the BBC has been reporting the news fairly well. I recommend their RSS Feed.

But why the stingy comment? That just pisses off the world. Here's my opinion on how the US is dealing with this catastrophy:
Imagine you live on a street with 20 houses, and you live on one end of the street. Well disaster happens to a house at the other end. Let's say the roof blew off that family's house. And you have to drive by and see this disaster. You hear from neighbors around your street that they lost their pets and the man of the house is out of a job. They have no where to go. They are hungry. Their baby is sick...etc. All kinds of horrible things. You don't know the people that had this happen but you feel you need to do something, anything you can. So do you, as a good samaritan, start writing checks to these people? Hell no.... First you assess the situation. Maybe you talk it over with other neighbors. You talk it over with your family. And then you PLAN what you are going to do and maybe work with others to do it.

Does the world expect the US to cough up billions immediately with out no plan or reason? Of course not, we don't know the full extent of the situation. We don't know anything yet. I am sure when it is all said and done, America and it's friends are going to look generous. And I am afraid, the UN, is just going to look worse than it already does. Sorry, libs... I said it. Sue me!