No, CNN, the State Department did not say "an additional $20 million in aid will be added to the $15 million the United States has already pledged for nations hit by the tsunamis." They actually said "we have identified an additional $20 million that we will be working to make available'' to those nations. It's like a promissory note, not an actual donation. (Media Girl gets it right in her update here.) After all, as I note below, actual charity and compassion are evil and suspect to people like these. But it's a face-saving bit of presti-regurgitation, because certain people think we were dissed and got all bristled up that we (i.e., the government) got called for not practicing what we preach. Egeland was pointing some pretty broad fingers when he said, "We were more generous when we were less rich, many of the rich countries... And it is beyond me, why are we so stingy, really ... Even Christmas time should remind many Western countries at least how rich we have become." Guilty conscience much? (That is, if there's even still a conscience at work here...)
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