Steyn
On the UN passing out money for victims of disaster. (in the Washington Times)
" It's one thing to invent humanitarian disasters to disparage President Bush's unilateralist warmongering. But after the tsunami the U.N. was reduced to inventing a humanitarian disaster to distract attention from the existing humanitarian disaster it wasn't doing anything about.
So its agencies issued hysterical warnings about post-tsunami health effects -- dysentery, cholera, BSE from water-logged cattle, etc. -- that, they assured us, would kill as many people as the original disaster. How much difference would it have made if the professional humanitarian bureaucracy had gone to the Riviera for the month after the tsunami? The NGOs skedaddled out of Iraq after the U.N. headquarters was bombed in summer 2003 -- and it made absolutely no difference. "
" It's one thing to invent humanitarian disasters to disparage President Bush's unilateralist warmongering. But after the tsunami the U.N. was reduced to inventing a humanitarian disaster to distract attention from the existing humanitarian disaster it wasn't doing anything about.
So its agencies issued hysterical warnings about post-tsunami health effects -- dysentery, cholera, BSE from water-logged cattle, etc. -- that, they assured us, would kill as many people as the original disaster. How much difference would it have made if the professional humanitarian bureaucracy had gone to the Riviera for the month after the tsunami? The NGOs skedaddled out of Iraq after the U.N. headquarters was bombed in summer 2003 -- and it made absolutely no difference. "
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