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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...

The Diplomad has been critical, often more than implying that the UN is as worthless as, uh, as . . . as . . . well, in fact, that it's uniquely worthless. Among the many things The Diplomad has written about the UN is that it's incapable of acting in an emergency, and that its vaunted humanitarian agencies are as worthless as, uh, as . . . well, as worthless as the rest of the UN system. But The Chief Diplomad is humble and not above taking back his words. So The Diplomad must acknowledge that as we head into...