Posted on 01/02/2005 9:12:08 PM PST by Elkiejg
Monday, January 03, 2005
almost fUNnny . . .
Day 9 of the tsunami crisis.
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.
Maybe watching the UN flounder is not like watching a train wreck; perhaps it's more akin to watching an Ed Wood movie or reading Maureen Dowd or Margo Kingston -- so horrible, so pathetic, that it transforms into a thing of perverse beauty. The only problem, of course, is that real people are dying.
I hope soon to return to my habitual corner of the Far Abroad . . . far, far away from the UN.
# posted by Diplomad @ 9:25 AM
Sunday, January 02, 2005
UNsanity Update
Don't want to sound like a broken record (for you younger readers, a record was like a CD, except a lot cheaper) but I have to pass along this bit of UNsanity. I promise, after this I'll stop posting for awhile on the UNresponse to the tsunami disaster, it's just too depressing and UNbelievable.
A colleague came back from a meeting held by the local UN representative yesterday and reported that the UN rep had said that while it was a good thing that the Australians and Americans were running the air ops into tsunami-wrecked Aceh, for cultural and political reasons, those Australians and Americans really "should go blue." In other words, they should switch into UN uniforms and give up their national ones.
Now you all know that The Diplomad is not a cynical or suspicious being, but there is something funny going on here . . . what could it be? Could it be a genuine concern for local "cultural and political sensitivities" that would be offended by the presence of Aussies and Yanks in their own military uniforms saving thousands of lives? Maybe . . . or, might it not be an odd coincidence that just after the infamous Mr. Anan (see prior posts) says the UN will be setting up air traffic control in Aceh, the UN wants to show that it has an ATC system operating? What better way than to continue in the UN tradition of taking credit for others' work? And this just before Mr. Anan arrives in Indonesia on January 6.
Please quote Vice President Cheney's recent comment to Senator Leahy next time.
Please...
nice find....ping
To hell with 'em.
Ping me too!
This is just getting out of hand... Are you keeping an eye on the soldier who refused to wear the Blue Cap instead of his uniform cap!?
The UN needs to be reduced to a drinking club somewhere in the Sudan.
GET the UN out of the US and the US out of the UN! Please?
I don't know how to do a ping list, but will ask Howlin or Peach if they will help. His stuff is dynamite isn't it?
Today, I heard the UN character who earlier had said we were stingy, say that only the UN was capable of managing and directing the worldwide response effort.
I'll be glad to use mine!
And .. it was reported on FOX that we were requested to change into UN blue helmets - guess they didn't want pictures of our military helping with the relief effort.
Typical liberals - appearance is all that counts.
Thanks for posting this! This is an excellent site! I just became aware of it today and needless to say,it's now bookmarked on my "favorites" list. Awesome!
Thanks a million Howlin.
Well, you've never asked before, so I figured it was important, and you're right; it is. :-)
To decide the shape of the table, no doubt!
I'm crazy about this guy.
At long last, someone at the State Department who really represents us. Love ya Diplomad!
BS. I know one thing, the US Military, particularly one under President Bush, won't stand for it.
Everything is coming together for me now - I thought it was just Clinton and McAuliffe and Gary Winnick who were the crooks - now I understand that this is a global fraud and crime ring - Bush wants to stop it.
Follow the money.
Hey UN .. ya hear that noise ... tic tic tic
Your time is up .. You have been outted to the whole world that you are useless organization and NOBODY needs you
Thanks for this ping. "UNresponse" is a perfect description for what Annan et al are not doing. Totally useless. I don't want to hear another word from any reporter criticizing the USA or President Bush. President Bush gave the UN some "blue"........he BLEW them awayand is dealing w/this crisis instead of holding press conferences.
Fabulous!
President Bush gave the UN some "blue"........he BLEW them awayand is dealing w/this crisis instead of holding press conferences.
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Good point!
And how 'bout all that press coverage we've seen of Kofi on vacation skiing with the President of the World Bank, while the same media was concerned that GWB had not jumped in front of a microphone!! Why it just makes the press coverage of Enron and Halliburton look small!!!!
NOT!
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