No, you are not being insensitive. The same question you posted here is also being asked in other countries that are spending huge amounts in aid to these devastated areas. People wonder how millions can be sent here and there when their own countries have poverty and other issues that require infusion of those same millions of dollars. I guess that no matter how bad things are, we are human and when others are suffering, we cannot in all good consciense ignore them.. and you won't always get thanks for it.