[mewzilla]

"The problem is, some people are perhaps not ready to release their stuff to the most efficient transportation makers and want to deliver supplies themselves."

I wanna know who's pulling that BS.

[SE Mom]

This is how bureaucracies operate. Just head Honore on CNN say apparently the problem last night with Gupta was “medical protocol”...he said they were using the same protocols as they do under normal circumstances.

The left forms a committee that ponders, thinks and then talks about it...the right sees the problem and acts to solve it today- not after the committee is formed.

[dawn53]

I can sort of understand the organization’s reticence. There have been reports of groups of armed citizens, looting, and promoting gang like activity.

If the food is just being “dropped in” via helicopter, who’s to say an armed group isn’t commandeering the food and not distributing it to the needy. Quite a normal thing in Africa, w/out boots on the ground, I imagine it could happen in Haiti too. The relief organizations probably want to get to the places to make sure the food is being distruted fairly.

[Cheburashka]

I wanna know who's pulling that BS.

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There are major aid bureaucracies - the UN and others. Each one wants to be able to boast, “We transported X tons of vital supplies to needy “_____”(fill in the blank). It's mandatory to be able to solicit for more funds for future work. "Giving supplies to the U.S. Navy? How can we boast about that? Our donors will find someone else to give contributions to if we don't do the deliveries ourselves." Sad but true.