Poor Angelina

I read a column in the paper last weekend about the wicked Angelina Jolie trying to help refugees by asking the developed world to cough up more money for them. The author went through a whole bunch of numbers -- how many UN officials who are supposed to help refugees take bribes, how much money we are already spending on helping refugee (millions, can you believe it?). How dare Angelina tell us to give more if it's going to be wasted on corrupt officials. According to the author, giving less would be the answer. The only thing she missed was that the US already spends less than any other developed country on humanitarian aid as a percentage of GDP. I guess there is another thing she missed: wherever there is corruption, one option is to fight it, not to punish starving refugees.