World food aid organization thru UN just put out a request to the world for $3bbl. USA stepped up with $1.1bbl immediately. The rest is trickling in. OPEC, which grossed in the first half of 2008 their entire 2007 gross, kicked in $2.5mm. yup. We’ll be leaving Iraq when they want us to –a constitutional republic rather than a dictator charnel house. we relieved the Tsunami even while Katrina was still ebbing. We stood up Germany & Japan after the world war they started. many many cases where we try to be a good world citizen & help when help is needed. So, what do we get but ”world colossus which needs to be taken down a notch”. Jeez. EU should’ve been in OIF matching us dollar for dollar –and soldier for soldier. their interests -we see clearly now, tho it was just as clear then –are far more at stake than ours anyway. And by taking the easy bye, they woke up the wolf.