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 Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject: The UN -- according to Diplomad |
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This blog is great, lots of humerous insight (bashing) on the UN from some diplomats-in-the-know
some great stuff in the comments sections too
poster Diplomad is apparently in of one of the countries affected by Tsuami
http://diplomadic.blogspot.com/
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| Quote: | Saturday, January 08, 2005
UNbearable . . . .
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What else is the UN up to, you ask? Oh the usual that you would expect from an organization with a dozen or so well-funded agencies supposedly devoted to emergency humanitarian relief . . . no, no, not feed people or provide them medical care, what do you think the UN is, the US military or something? What is wrong with you readers? Has The Diplomad taught you nothing? The correct response is put out a press release in New York claiming to be doing all sorts of things that others, e.g., US and Australia, are doing -- oh, and catch the dig at US helicopters.
The local UNocrats, not to be outdone by their New York Vulture brethren, tore themselves away from the buffet at the Hyatt, and put out a matrix, dated January 5, that sums up what the UN has "done" since the quake and tsunami hit on December 26. It's a pack of outright lies and distortions.
My favorite entries in the matrix come from UNICEF (see the prior pre-tsunami Diplomad posting on the glories of UNICEF.) Under "Water & Sanitation," UNICEF tells us "Response team being deployed." Yessiree, that'll put water into dehydrated kids' mouths --
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Our folks in Aceh report that UN "coordination" means that the UN holds a meeting every day at 5 pm near the runway in Aceh. Every donor nation and NGO stands up and states what it's doing; the UN rep writes it down. Some times, however, it's hard to hear. The distinctive "whoop! whoop! whoop!" of those nasty American choppers and the roar of Australian and American C-130 engines on the tarmac can prove very bothersome to the UN rep as he tries to hear what everyone else is doing. Poor man! If only those stingy Aussies and Yanks would have the decency to shut down relief operations while the UN rep is trying to hold a meeting, after all, he's here to help, help himself, that is, to taking credit for what the others are doing.
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from the comments
UN 'failing to co-ordinate relief efforts'
- Financial Times Jan 7th 2005 Page 2 (www.ft.com - subscription required or check your library)
"If we wait for the UN to tell us what to do, we wouldn't do anything. There are people who are hungry and angry. Why wait? So we just do it".
- Admiral, Malaysian Navy
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