{"id":993,"date":"2004-12-31T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-31T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2004-12-31T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-31T17:15:00","slug":"993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>THE CALLOUS HUMANITARIANISM OF THE UN<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The UN&#8217;s transnationalist hubris and moral degeneracy gets more disgusting with each passing crisis. I&#8217;d blog on this myself but <a href=\"http:\/\/diplomadic.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/flash-clare-short-is-idiot.html\">The Diplomad has already said it better<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#000099;\">&#8220;Only really the UN can do the job?&#8221; We have US C-130s flying in and out of here dropping off heaps of supplies; US choppers arrive today; USAID is doing a knock-out job of marshalling and coordinating US and local resources to deliver real assistance to real people. The Aussies have planes and troops delivering stuff; even the Indians have goods on the way. The UN? Nowhere to be seen. OK, I&#8217;m not being fair. Last night they played host to a big &#8220;coordination&#8221; meeting of donors to announce that the UNDP has another large &#8220;assessment and coordination team&#8221; team arriving. Our USAID guys, who&#8217;ve been working 18-20 hrs\/day, came back furious from this meeting saying everybody would be dead if the delivery of aid waited for the UN to set up shop and begin &#8220;coordinating.&#8221; The UN types are upset with the US, Ms. Short, dear, not because we&#8217;re undermining them but because we&#8217;re showing them up as totally inept.So much stupidity . <\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/><strong><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/><strong><span style=\"color:#000099;\">. . . Ms. Short and her ilk would rather have people die than have the US go it &#8220;alone&#8221; with its partners.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CALLOUS HUMANITARIANISM OF THE UN The UN&#8217;s transnationalist hubris and moral degeneracy gets more disgusting with each passing crisis. I&#8217;d blog on this myself but The Diplomad has already said it better: &#8220;Only really the UN can do the job?&#8221; We have US C-130s flying in and out of here dropping off heaps of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}