"...I didn´t say that I participate in this game."
Right...yet you felt free to make ME a participant, but that's not slinging mud?
The way I participate in this game is to send $300-$400 in care packages to Marines in Iraq every month, and this year I'll be adding $100/mo donation to the folks at breedlove.org to help feed tsunami survivors. I don't do this for any reason other than that it's the right thing to do. I'm one of the millions of hateful conservatives who do what they can, seeking nothing and knowing it will never be enough to make some people happy.
Where I draw the line is when someone tells me the truth is off limits because the world is hurting. The world is always hurting, and the US is always helping. The world's perception of the US is an issue 24/7, and when that perception is being twisted against the US it must be corrected at once.
Seeing the story from all angles it's obvious that, while first and foremost right now, relief is just one part of the picture, and flooding the area with cash is not the answer. Guerrilla wars and Islamic fundamentalists were making life hell in that region before the tsunami and they're sure to be revived when the debris is cleared and the dead are buried. We'd damn well better keep track of who's giving what and to whom. That's not a competition, it's common sense.
And pardon me for not growing misty-eyed over the 9/11 gestures made by foreign countries. That was a blip on the world heart monitor that flatlined again as soon as the US showed it was serious about eradicating terror wherever it exists. When they realized it might cost them blood and fortune, their sympathy turned to schadenfreude and showed how truely meaningless those gestures were.
Now criticize me all you want. I have boxes to ship.
If the MSM had spent less time bitching about, politicizing and second-guessing the Bush administration's hurricane relief efforts they might have noticed the utter lack of even a polite offer of assistance from a single foreign government.
I tell you what? The US can stand on its own feet; no country offered help when thousands of East Germans lost their homes 2002 because of river floodings. I think western countries need no help, because they can bear the consequences of such natural disasters alone. If you cannot agree with that and stay with this sentence, so be it.