Kipling understood.
“Take up the white man’s burden...”
The same unappreciative BS occurred with the SE Asia tsunami. I remember an interview with a forlorn fellow standing amid debris: “Where are the Americans?” Jeesh...do something for your own lousy selves and your own loser country. Leave the USA alone.
"Take up the white man's burden,
The savage wars of peace,
Fill full the mouth of famine,
And bid the sickness cease,
And when your goal is nearest,
Your hope for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen folly,
Bring all your works to nought."
The man knew whereof he spoke.