The U.N. official coordinating relief efforts on Sumatra island complained Thursday that the U.S. military's aid mission was failing to coordinate and provide critical information to other relief organizations struggling to help survivors of the tsunami. What's to assess at this stage. For the past 10 days, we've been keeping food and water in as many warm bodies as possible!
That's OUR assessment of the situation. If it was up to the UN there STILL wouldn't be food and water and medicines in those bodies! Almost 2 weeks later and the UN is STILL dithering about what to do! How many would have died but for the US/AU/IN/JP coalition???
Food & Water: It does a body good!
The "diplomad" blog has some excellent commentary of the johnny-come-late UN people showing up late, trying to lord it over everyone by insisting they have a "right" or a "mandate" to coordinate (read "control and "claim credit") everyone's operations that have been underway for a week before they showed up.
These guys are headline grabbing functionaries with little to offer the victims.