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Monday, January 03, 2005
Who's stingy now?
It is not clearly in Canada's national interest to spend tax dollars to help with tsunami relief -- that is the place of private charity, and Canadians (and many others around the world) are being quite charitable.
That said, if our government is giving foreign aid, we might as well give it to tsunami victims, instead of to Red China, our number one recipient of foreign aid, and a leading director of espionage against our own country, according to CSIS.
But how about other countries? How are they doing? How about other Islamic countries, given that this disaster has hit Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, the hardest?
Kuwait, a recipient of enormous subsidy through and after its liberation from Saddam, has grudgingly donated $10-million -- though fully half of their population are South Asian servants.
Saudi Arabia has pledged the same -- though perhaps that is best, since such aid would likely be funnelled through Wahhabi channels, either being skimmed for global terror or strengthening radical Islam throughout the tsunami zone.
Most interesting is China itself -- which seeks to become the dominant power in Asia. It has donated $2.6-million, just a few pence more than, say, actress Sandra Bullock.
Say -- when will the UN call any of these dictatorships stingy, as they so quickly labelled the U.S.?
Posted by Ezra Levant on January 3, 2005 | Permalink
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