Is Japan's Bureaucracy Strangling Humanitarian Aid?
Hey, I know it's from TIME mag and circumstances are overwhelming, but I think she has a point...
I don’t have time to read the whole thing right now, but I am in contact with a lot of people and everything I hear says the bottleneck is not bureaucracy, it’s transportation. The pipelines are just not that wide right now.
There are only so many undamaged roads and railways so the ones that are usable are being strictly controlled. They have to be. A major traffic jam at this point could take days to unsnarl and there has been so many major aftershocks in the last few days that nobody is even counting them anymore.
So, while it’s heartening that so many people want to rush to the scene and help, I think that criticism of the government efforts are, at best, misplaced.
Could thing be better? Obviously. Nothing made by human hands or formulated by human brains is ever perfect. But this kind of Monday morning quarterbacking isn’t that helpful.