Tsunami Money

Is this the right place to be overly concerned about funds being misappropriated? Obviously, we desperately need to know the money for reconstructing the tragic devastation in Indonesia and South Asia is going to the right needs, but should we be overly concerned there, or is it simply more important that we simply get the funds there to get the job done, and make sure that it is done?

Shouldn't we, instead, make sure our $87 billion investment in our elective war practice gets proper accounting [it's not, of course], that all the receipts are turned in, and our own effort there is closely scrutinized and properly maintained?

So what's the difference? Why are we so concerned about one version of accounting (the humanitarian needs of South Asia) and so clueless about other needs of accounting (the private corporate interestes that we're funding to rebuild Iraq after our elective war)?

Well, for starters, we've got nothing to gain back by being humanitarian- no taxes (or tax breaks, rather), and the oil fields that are there we've already got control of. And our VP wasn't CEO of Indonesia or Oxfam, so... No need for nepotistic business practices here.

What are our Federal, political accountants saying? That the lives of the hundreds of thousands of killed and displaced from the natural occurance of this horrifying global tragedy need to come under closer scrutiny (and therefore, closer bottom-line evaluation) than anything going on in our elective (and throughout, very misguided and tragic) war in Iraq.