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Originally posted by Sir Degrader:
Why all the ad hominemattacks Because MagiK quotes a blog automatically his statement is discounted? Anyway, from the CBC and other news agencies, I haven't heard of ANY un forces giving out aid, just soldiers, charities and government forces. All I've heard from the CBC is that "UN demands that payments come through", and CNN doesn't even mention what they do.
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1) Ad hominem - LOL - did you read the blogs? If it looks like poop and stinks like poop it is poop. Blogs are opinions not facts, and in this case let's not read that tripe and believe that Diplomad doesn't have a very singular view of where he wants to grind his axe. Some people want to believe that a herbal tea will make you lose weight, some people want to believe some scheme will make them rich, and some poeple hate the UN and want to believe this blogger. Nuff said.
2) You make the statement about not seeing it reported in papers, but do you honestly believe there are no UN personnel at any ground zero's helping out. If you do then I feel sorry for you - you are letting bias and feelings block out the sun.
There are many UN personnel on the ground working away at solving problems. To give you the merest taste of the edge of what they are doing, Unicef has been establishing (and staffing and supplying) child care centres - mostly in Sumatra but also in Sri lanka aimed at housing and caring for the orphans. The World Health Organisation (another UN body) has been getting vaccines in place and started immunisationsagainst eth diseases that are expected to kill thousands more.
When quizzed 48 hours ago about whey there weren't more UN people on the ground yet, the United Nations Emergency Relief Co-ordinator readily admitted that the effort needed to be stronger on the ground. The United Nations was doing an enormous job already, with hundreds of people working, but it needed to build up more and it could and would do so dramatically in next few days. Compared to the immediate deployment possibilities of a military force, the UN build-up was slower, but it would continue to grow.