The United States historically has aided victims of disasters, but it is not universally recognized as providing the level of aid expected of a rich nation.Then, a couple of paragraphs later we have another comment about American aid:
It almost appears to me that writer Barry Schweid was trying to come up with reasons why other countries should deny aid to the U.S.The United States, the world's largest economy, lags behind other rich nations in the percentage of its giving to nations in Africa, the world's poorest continent.