More from Diplomad....

[Yonivore]

This Embassy has been running 24/7 since the December 26 earthquake and tsunami. Along with my colleagues, I've spent the past several days dealing non-stop with various aspects of the relief effort in this tsunami-affected country. That work, unfortunately, has brought ever-increasing contact with the growing UN presence in this capital; in fact, we've found that to avoid running into the UN, we must go out to where the quake and tsunami actually hit. As we come up on two weeks since the disaster struck, the UN is still not to be seen where it counts -- except when holding well-staged press events. Ah, yes, but the luxury hotels are full of UN assessment teams and visiting big shots from New York, Geneva, and Vienna. The city sees a steady procession of UN Mercedes sedans and top-of-the-line SUV's -- a fully decked out Toyota Landcruiser is the UN vehicle of choice; it doesn't seem that concerns about "global warming" and preserving your tax dollars run too deep among the UNocrats.

Sitting VERY late for two consecutive nights in interminable meetings with UN reps, hearing them go on about "taking the lead coordination role," pledges, and the impending arrival of this or that UN big shot or assessment/coordination team, for the millionth time I realized that if not for Australia and America almost nobody in the tsunami-affected areas would have survived more than a few days. If we had waited for the UNocrats to get their act coordinated, the already massive death toll would have become astronomical. But, fortunately, thanks to "retrograde racist war-mongers " such as John Howard and George W. Bush, as we sat in air conditioned meeting rooms with these UNocrats, young Australians and Americans were at that moment "coordinating" without the UN and saving the lives of tens-of-thousands of people.

[NeoConIV]

Nowhere to be found in the disaster areas? WTF are they doing?

Freaking unbelievable.

[Hook Dem]

U.N. officials are busy counting the money and can't be bothered with trivial matters such as saving lives at this time. Thats "squaws" work best left to The United States and Australia.

[SpursWoman]

I think the Americans & the Austrailians should just mind their own business and quit butting in/imposing their own will on other countries when we have starving people at home. No relief aid for oil.

[Opinionater]

IMHO, some just like to to . They about liberals and democrats and the UN and then think their own don't stink.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

So what do you think we should be doing Opinionator? Sitting around watching people die and holding meetings (the UN model), or getting out there and helping?

This isn't a liberal/conservative type thing. This is about a raging bureacracy that's more about press conferences and slush funds than action.