Foreign Aid Flows into American South

Whenever there is a disaster in the world, the US is among the donors (usually among the most generous, but not always). And there is always some nationalist (nationalism being a malignant form of patriotism) who complains that it’s always America that helps and when disaster hits the US, the rest of the world doesn’t do anything. So to set the record straight, the US State Department says it has received help or offers of help in the wake of Hurricane Katrina from the following 60 of so countries:

Afghanistan Australia Austria Armenia Azerbaijan Bahamas Belgium Canada China Columbia Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador

El Salvador France Germany Guatemala Greece Guyana Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Israel Italy

Jamaica Japan Jordan Lithuania Luxembourg Mexico the Netherlands New Zealand Norway Paraguay Philippines Portugal South Korea Russia

Saudi Arabia Singapore Slovakia Spain Sri Lanka Switzerland Sweden Taiwan Thailand Turkey United Kingdom the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.

Sri Lanka has offered $25,000, a pittance compared to the need, but for a country that suffered its own massive flood in the Christmas Tsunami of last year, it is a gift from the heart. Thanks to the massive improvement in British cuisine in the last generation, the 500,000 meals on their way to the land of blackened catfish is more welcome than it would have been in the bad old days. And Iran, part of the axis of evil, has offered the Great Satan a little something in the name of humanity.


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