So Mr. Magnanimous in Texas has responded to a calamity with up to 100,000 dead by offering a measly $35 million. That is less than Bush will spend on his coronation. It's what the US spends in Iraq roughly every 3-4 hours.
As other nations up their ad packages (including Australia, Japan and the EU), the US will be shamed into offering more. It's inevitable. But our nation's first feeble efforts at generosity, coupled with Bush's utter silence on the matter (until shamed by Clinton into opening up his mouth), will further add to the animosity the world holds against the US.
At a time when we could've shined, and made true on our promise of international generosity and a beacon of optimism and hope, the Bush administration gave us the opposite.
Update: While Bush focuses our tax dollars on war, we can do our part:
IRC Donations
Oxfam
India Relief
CARE