Privately Praising Egeland

From the Washington Times Insider (registration reuired):

U.N. and private aid officials are quietly praising Jan Egeland, the U.N. emergency relief coordinator who last week suggested that Western nations are "stingy" with support for tsunami victims, as Germany prepares a reported $665 million in relief.

Since his disparaging comment, which Mr. Egeland said was misinterpreted, nations have been one-upping each other with pledges of aid and debt relief.

It's all about the Benjamins (that's money for the non-US readers)...never mind about the, you know, actual aid that is being rendered.

11:30AM Update

This is, I suppose, as good an oppotunity as any to do another plug for World Relief Day. Read all about it over at Captain's Quarters.

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