Logistics & propaganda

I was reading an American newspaper on the way across here - it was praising America's response to the earthquake and the way they took control of the logistics immediately in the aftermath. This struck me as entirely at odds with the view presented in many European newspapers and on the international news (BBC, Al-Jazeera etc) which suggested that the US did take control of logistics, but then blocked some urgently needed supplies in favour of their own requirements. The most damning of these reports came from the Medecins sans Frontiers team, who could not bring in urgently needed equipment in the first days and were instead reduced to buying hacksaw blades in the market place to be able to conduct essential and life-saving operations such as amputations. It seems almost as if the two organisations (MSF & the US military) were focusing on scoring points from each other through their public utterances, which seems to me to be a sad waste of the genuine goodwill each has brought to the crisis.
Clearly the two stories don't match up completely, and it does seem that those who have been running logistics have at times made poor decisions: however, given the chaotic nature of Port au Prince in the first days after the earthquake, it cannot have been easy to plan well or meet all needs. As the official government of Haiti was seemingly all but invisible at times, it is probably a good thing that the US did step in, or the chaos may have been even worse. The important thing - and the heartening thing - is that now many aid agencies are on the ground, all seeking to work together effectively to help rebuild a society and a country that has had it's infrastructure shattered and devastated, even whilst its soul has remained intact. If the international community is to genuinely help Haiti recover, then all agencies here on the ground must work together effectively and without ego, agreeing priorities and linking as well as possible for the enormous task ahead.