Where's the carping U.N. now?

Remember when a lowly U.N. aid official criticized the U.S. for being cheap during the 2004 Christmas tsumani in East Asia? With Indonesia rocked by a killer earthquate, the ineffectual U.N. is nowhere to be found. But guess who's hit the ground first? The U.S.A. (and it won't buy us any brownie points.)

BANTUL, Indonesia - Two U.S. military cargo planes landed Tuesday at the site of an earthquake in Indonesia that killed more than 5,400, bringing some of the first significant aid to reach the tens of thousands of survivors who were left homeless.

About 20 U.S. Marines arrived on the cargo planes in the historic city of Yogyakarta and unloaded heavy lifting machinery and a portable field hospital, as Malaysian, Chinese and Japanese rescue workers joined Indonesian teams providing medical care and emergency supplies to victims.