On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:19:14AM +0000, John Dunlop wrote:
> Your anti-UN (and anti-EU) and "US saves the world" bias is wholy
> inappropriate in this context.

Your anti-US bias has been inappropriate in general, but it's especially
inappropriate here.  Before you slam us yet again and hold up the UN as a
shining example of international cooperation, go read the Diplomad's blog,
at http://diplomadic.blogspot.com . He's a US diplomat in the stricken area
(Indonesia, I think, but I can't be sure), an writes about what's really
happening there. It's not flattering to the UN at all.

I note with great astonishment, also, that the UN has taken the unusual step
of hiring an outside accounting firm to audit the flow of aid money and
invesitage any reports of fraud. What astonishes me is that 1) it's unusual
that they'd do that, and 2) they felt compelled to do so now.

Yes, there are lots of folks out there working hard to provide relief, and
not just Americans and Aussies, either. Just don't count the massive UN or
EU bureaucracies among them.

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