The man from the U.N. who was being critical of the amount of aid being sent by the Western countries actually HAD an impact.

Before his statement, the U.S. announced a 4 million dollar donation to Red Cross, AFTER his statement the U.S. upped it to 15 million. Within a few hours from the statement Canada increased it's aid from 1 Million to 4 Million and stressed that it was only the beginning.

The guy wasn't blaming America specifically, he was directing his statements to ALL western countries. It takes a lot of guts to step up and say that for a tragedy of such behemoth scale, people who have the power to help must be willing to open their purse strings a little.

Sure he wasn't being very tactful, but his intention was to get the media to question the aid their countries were giving. It worked.