The 'Passive Saboteurs' Are Leaving Iraq

The Wall Street Journal ^ | September 8, 2003 | MARTIN PERETZ

[aculeus]

Hatred of the USA trumps love of "humanity".

[aardvark1]

NGOs are a money gobbling blight. They exist only to receive government handouts out of which they pass on a little to the countries in which they operate. But as is so clear in a country like Somalia or North Korea, they do nothing really to make sure the aid goes to those who need it most. These governments hijack the aid and use it as a bargaining chip against their "enemies" and these NGOs simply keep the supply coming, assuaging their own consciences by keeping up the charage of helping.

[ClearCase_guy]

If you read Ayn Rand, you quickly find out that those who "love humanity" are filled with hatred and really wish that the whole thing would come crashing down. Altruism is a twisted thing: it seems good, but it simply isn't.

[prairiebreeze]

It is for this reason that these professionals actually engage in what one might call passive sabotage in Iraq, a mean-spirited version of what Thorstein Veblen called "the conscientious withdrawal of efficiency."

Sounds just like the strategy and behavior of the DNC.

Prairie

[=Intervention=]

Ayn Rand, in a moment of unwitting irony, decided to post perhaps the most obvious symbol of temporality as her permanent memento -- a cash sign upon her tombstone. That confirmed her personal instability once and for all.

[Publius6961]

Hatred of the USA trumps love of "humanity".

I can't think of a better summary!

[WorkingClassFilth]

I would only point out that not all NGO's are a blight. For example, the NRA has succeeded in obtaining NGO status and had exposed UN small arms deliberations on more than one occasion. However, the idea of the NGO, as the sanctifying imprimatur of the UN is, indeed, a sickening concept. Here's a link you might want to read (have a barf bag on hand first):

http://www.un.org.pk/library/unirr_NGLS.html

[Modernman]

Altruism is a twisted thing: it seems good, but it simply isn't.

Tell that to Mother Teresa.

[CatoRenasci]

You are wrong:

Altruism, as a personal choice with one's own time and money (and those of like-minded individuals) is hardly a bad thing, and is even a good thing.

What is a bad thing is "professional altruism" of salaried "altruists" who 'do well by doing good' with other people's (often coerced - ie tax) money.

[aculeus]

Hatred of the USA trumps love of "humanity".

Thanks for noticing!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

It is for this reason that these professionals actually engage in what one might call passive sabotage in Iraq, a mean-spirited version of what Thorstein Veblen called "the conscientious withdrawal of efficiency." They do not want the water to flow if the tap is turned by Paul Bremer.

Great post. Long overdue. I don't quite agree with the "passive" label...they are very active in their sabotage of our efforts.

When the fledgling Iraqi Council needed the 'blessings' of the IMF and World Bank to reassure both corporations and nations that the new Iraq government was worthy, both bodies said no, though they dealt with a mass-murdering monster for decades.

Both Clintons have been dealing with the EU-UN pro-Socialist, anti-American NGOs and nations. Hillary went so far as to pledge the loyalty of the Democratic Party to global socialism - rather than depend on the US military to defend our nation, in an interview in Der Spiegel last June. The AMERICAN press didn't bother to share much of Hillary's European book treason tour with the American people.

Fact is, the NGOs are often big talkers who leave broken promises for our troops to then deal with. Both the Red Cross and Amnesty Int'l protested the treatment of POWS in Iraq by our troops. These NGOS were more concerned with the men who raped and murdered their neighbors, than the men and women who voluntarily risk their lives to save strangers in a foreign land.

[y2k_free_radical]

AYN RAND was one of the DEVIL'S spokespersons and totally ANTI-CHRIST

[aculeus]

Overdue NGO bugout alert.

[aculeus]

Both Clintons have been dealing with the EU-UN pro-Socialist, anti-American NGOs and nations. Hillary went so far as to pledge the loyalty of the Democratic Party to global socialism - rather than depend on the US military to defend our nation, in an interview in Der Spiegel last June. The AMERICAN press didn't bother to share much of Hillary's European book treason tour with the American people.

Too bad that interview wasn't posted on FR ... or was it?

[ClearCase_guy]

I don't intend to defend Ayn Rand. She was a flawed human being. And I disagree with her atheism (I think that it is the single biggest weakness in her philosophy).

However, she tried to point out that many (she would say ALL, but I will merely say 'many') of the altruists in the world secretly gloat over the pain and suffering of people. They want to be needed. They need the world to be full of poor people. They will adopt "forest protection plans" that result in catastrophic wildfires -- then they will help the survivors to lobby for more funding for "forest protection".

I'm willing to bet that many of the people connected with "humanitarian" causes in Iraq are leaving precisely with the hope that disaster will occur BECAUSE they leave. They are hoping to CAUSE a disaster -- because then they can come back as heroes. Many (not all) altruists live for that stuff.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Good post. Expect the next attacks in Iraq to become centered upon the Bechtel's and private corporations.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Someone is finally looking at the NGOs.

Nice work if you can get it. College grads today want to go straight from apprentice to master.

Our troops first went into Iraq to liberate the Iraqi people almost six months ago. We have yet to see any major press and/or Congressional investigations into the activities of these mostly socialist, anti-American, pro-Saddam, so-called 'humanitarian' NGOs.

8NGOs - the New World Order [Good]~ Washington Dispatch  | 6/19/03 | Helen and Peters Evans

8 Mark Steyn: Come on over the water's lovely  ~ The Sunday Telegraph  ^ | 6/01/03 | Mark Steyn

8 Saddam's Cash [NGOs, Press and Pols silenced by Saddam for '30 pieces of silver']
  ~ The Weekly Standard ^ | May 5, 2003 | Stephen F. Hayes

8 THE REAL SCANDAL OF IRAQI RELIEF [NGO mischief-makers in Iraq]
  ~ New York Post ^ | 5/11/03 | JONATHAN FOREMAN

8 Saddam Stole Billions From U.N. ~ ABC News | 5/03

8 Where Are the Human Rights Groups? ~ Richard Pollock | FrontPageMagazine.com | 4/03

8  Finally! The TRUTH about POWs in Iraq [Chief's reliable first-hand account]

8  http://www.ngowatch.org/

[Ditto]

"However, she tried to point out that many (she would say ALL, but I will merely say 'many') of the altruists in the world secretly gloat over the pain and suffering of people. They want to be needed. They need the world to be full of poor people."

They need to feel superior. That's what makes them insufferable.

[browardchad]

Mark Steyn had a particularly apt description of the NGO's after his trip to Iraq in June:

"They shuttle across the globe, mingling with their own kind - other SUV users - and bringing with them the values of the mother country, or the mother bureaucracy. Like many imperialists, they're well-meaning: they see their charges as helpless and dependent, which happy condition has the benefit of justifying an ever-growing aid bureaucracy in perpetuity. It will be very destructive for Iraq if the tentativeness of the American administration in Baghdad allows the ambulance-chasers of the NGOs to sink their fangs into the country."

Considering that 60% of Iraqis were on the UN dole before the war, I'd say they already had their fangs well sunk in, making our job of re-education all the more difficult. A "welfare-to-work" program writ large.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I'm glad you asked.

 "America should seek "a secure and solid foundation" for relations with Europe, instead of "relying only upon our [U.S.] military strength." .. "for eight years we were on the right course to a globalized and integrated world - which is coming, one way or the other." ...Not only is a "globalized and integrated world" inevitable, it is a foreign policy priority of the Democratic Party...Der Spiegel concludes: As Europeans become more familiar with Clinton and her views, their impact will be felt as they bring money and influence to her or a like politician's campaign...The socialist European expectation will be that a Democratic victory will bring into power a U.S. government more to the liking of one-world European politicians. ~ Hillary Clinton Der Spiegel interview, June 17, 2003. .

*Hillary Clinton Attacks Bush, U.S. Intelligence Services in Overseas Interview

*Hillary: "New Political Icon" Clinton's European Triumph

*Clinton: NATO should intervene in Iraq - AFP ^ | July 12, 2003 | AFP

*Clinton urged to head NATO  - Aftenpost (Norway) ^ | Tuesday 17 June 2003

*Democrats Use Bastille Day, Internet Activism to Bash Bush

 

*'Dems plan to undermine America to beat Bush'