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The Diplomad (blog) and the UN |
2005-01-04 |
I know I am not supposed to link to other Blogs (I promise I'll say three 'Hail Fred's ok?) but the Diplomad's assessment of the U.N. efforts in South Asia just has to be read..... Editors - delete if you wish :) Examples: . . .I know I had promised to lay off the UN for a bit . . . but I can't. As one reader commented on a previous Diplomad posting on the UN, "it's like watching a train wreck" -- you know it's horrible, but you've just got to look at it. In this part of the tsunami-wrecked Far Abroad, the UN is still nowhere to be seen where it counts, i.e., feeding and helping victims. The relief effort continues to be a US-Australia effort, with Singapore now in and coordinating closely with the US and Australia. Other countries are also signing up to be part of the US-Australia effort. Nobody wants to be "coordinated" by the UN. The local UN reps are getting desperate. They're calling for yet another meeting this afternoon; they've flown in more UN big shots to lecture us all on "coordination" and the need to work together, i.e., let the UN take credit. With Kofi about to arrive for a big conference, the UNocrats are scrambling to show something, anything as a UN accomplishment. Don't be surprised if they claim that the USS Abraham Lincoln is under UN control and that President Lincoln was a strong supporter of the UN. . .It goes on and on.... |
Posted by:CrazyFool |
#4 TG for the blogosphere. Real-time, inside baseball without a PC MSM filter. If anything brings down the UN, it will be continued real-time exposes of the complete clownishness, incompetence and sheer bullshit of those running the UN's relief program. Hurrah for Diplomad. Here's hoping they attract 5 million visitors, or more, with this series. Expose these shameless bastards. |
Posted by: lex 2005-01-04 10:06:18 PM |
#3 ...Twenty four hour catering service... And it's not likely to be a free service, either. |
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-04 9:56:32 PM |
#2 The team has spent the day and will likely spend a few more setting up their "coordination and opcenter" at a local five-star hotel. And their number one concern, even before phones, fax and copy machines? Arranging for the hotel to provide 24hr catering service. I believe many of us called this about 5 minutes after this thing started. Not that it was all that friggin hard to predict. Kinda like the sun coming up. |
Posted by: tu3031 2005-01-04 3:43:54 PM |
#1 2004 was not a good year for the Useless Nations. Let's hope 2005 is even worse. My biggest fear regarding the UN is that King Kofi will step down, and be replaced in a superficial show of "reform" that will only delay what really needs to be done: abolishing this useless, loathesome monstrosity. |
Posted by: Dave D. 2005-01-04 2:00:53 PM |