Posted on 02/14/2005 10:14:00 AM PST by FlyLow
(CNSNews.com) - The U.S. has already committed $350 million to the tsunami relief efforts underway in Southeast Asia and President Bush wants Congress to approve another $600 million, but a humanitarian aid expert Friday nevertheless asserted that "when it comes to relative generosity, [America has] a long way to go."
The remarks by Dr. Susan Rice, a senior fellow at the liberal Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., were similar to those made by United Nations Undersecretary for Human Services Jan Egeland, who shortly after the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami declared that America's early response to the crisis was "stingy."
Appearing Friday at a George Washington University panel discussion, Rice repeated Egeland's criticism, alleging that America's overall humanitarian approach is "stingy." She spoke broadly about America's responsibilities and priorities in the world, touching not only on the tsunami relief operation in Southeast Asia but also on the U.S. presence in Iraq and the alleged genocide in Sudan.
The U.S. "ought to be doing what we are doing in the military capacity," she said in reference to American servicemen and women distributing aid and helping rebuild countries ravaged by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
"We have a stake in its successful reconstruction," she added, because U.S. assistance is already helping turn the opinion of the heavily Muslim population of Indonesia in favor of the United States.
But Rice condemned U.S. operations in Iraq.
She said the U.S. invasion of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq was "a mistake" and that even after the Jan. 30 elections in Iraq, is "not convinced we can yet succeed," in helping Iraqis establish freedom and democracy in their country.
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Dear Dr Susan Rice,
Take a large bag of sand,
Bend over,
Ram the whole thing up where the sun don't shine!
I won't go as far as the previous poster. I have been thinking however that the $20,000,000 just spent to decorate New York City's central park in the name of Art could have been better spent on Tsunami victims. Sure, it was private money, but that's not the point, is it?
http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=71903
In all these "reports" that show the U.S. as being stingy with it's charity money, I have yet to see any private or corporate numbers shown.
Considering the U.S. government controls an extremely low percentage of the GNP compared to other countries, it is pointless to talk about the generosity of the country without taking into consideration non-government monies.
Let's compare apples to apples, Dr. Rice. Anything less does no credit to your credentials, at best. At worst, it makes you a lying, borderline-seditious, blow-hard.
What people do with their own money is their business and they should not be made to feel guilty because they didn't use it in a way everyone things they should.
Pound Sand Sue!
I think the US should get out of the business of giving aid altogether, and should simply let private individuals do it. No amount of money is going to be sufficient to persuade these people to stop defaming the US government.
And before I get rightly slammed, yes we the US sometimes act in our short term interests, but we do have a record of correcting our mistakes while France wallows in them for centuries until it becomes our problem.
Talk about stingy. Dr. Rice should be lecturing the Saudi's.
Does anyone know how much Dr. Rice has personally donated to tsunami relief? I'll bet not even as much as a good dinner for herself (if any at all). Like most librals she wants to feel good with my money.
If I'm not mistaken this woman was scheduled to become a high level foreign policy person in a Kerry Administration, possibly National Security Advisor. Can you imagine?!
Yeah, it IS the point! Private money, MY money, discretionary dollars that I control go to where I want them to go and not where some hand wringing bed wetter thinks they ought to go. If you have an extra buck or 2 then by all means donate it to the victims but do me a favor and don't tell me what I should do with MY buck or 2.
I believe she sent two new pair's of "BOXER" panties!
Didn't Susan Rice work for John Kerry?
If so maybe she wants to look at JFK's charitable giving on his tax returns.
A few years he gave $0.00 to charity!
US Government Donation = $350 Million
US Military cost of Aid = $240 Million
US Private Donations = $970 Million
Cost of post to tell this Dr. Susan Rice to kiss my A$$...
PRICELESS
Read my Tagline and then come climb my fence!!!!
Dumbass, hate-America, liberal-demokkkRAT b!tch.
I do believe Rice was on Kerry's payroll. The question is how much has Sue Rice donated? Secondly, if I was Bush I would stop all aid, period, then these idiots would be justified in calling the US stingy!
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/11/20/sudan.slaves.reut/ Not the most feminine subject...
1. The fund has so much money they don't know HOW to get rid of it efficiently 2. They don't need tax payer money, giving it is unconstitutional. 3. Why doesn't the Muslim world carry the load?
"I do believe Rice was on Kerry's payroll"
October 15, 2004
Dr. Susan Rice on Findings of Iraq Reconstruction Audit
For Immediate Release
Washington, DC - Statement by Dr. Susan Rice, Kerry Senior Advisor for National Security:
“The audit report is yet more evidence of the Bush administration’s mismanagement of Iraqi and U.S. taxpayer resources in their failed effort to reconstruct Iraq. Unfortunately, waste, fraud and abuse have become the hallmark of the Bush administration’s handling of Iraq. Over a year ago, Paul Bremer hit the nail on the head when he said that ‘early progress on reconstructing Iraq will give us an edge against the terrorists and save American lives.’ A year later, it appears the Administration is still not listening.”
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_1015c.html
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