30 Dec 2004 Bush’s Aid Coalition

Sean at Everything I Know Is Wrong reports on criticism of President Bush’s new Asian aid coalition.

One leftist critic complains that coalition countries (the U.S., Australia, Japan and India) lack the “moral authority” to provide aid to disaster victims. Only the U.N. has moral authority to act, she claims.

I think (and hope) most leftists would disagree with this silly woman. No one needs the authority of any government to perform a charitable act — a fact that actually is beside the point, as the U.N. is not a government anyway, just a trade association for governments.