More Falling UN Stock II

Following yesterdays link to the Belmont Club (its yesterday to me) I follow up with this link to Diplomad. They have this to say, "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." Belmont mentioned a coallition of relief providers and coordinators, the US, Australia, Japan, and India which was being criticized by the UN and its friends in the press (standing up for the downtrodden, I guess). Diplomad goes on to say, "Other countries are also signing up to be part of the US-Australia effort. Nobody wants to be 'coordinated' by the UN. " Singapore is recent joiner, but it looks like others are joining the functioning relief effort instead of the "legitimate" relief effort. "The local UN reps are getting desperate. They're calling for yet another meeting this afternoon; they've flown in more UN big shots to lecture us all on "coordination" and the need to work together, i.e., let the UN take credit. " This was Belmont's point in yesterday's link. Diplomad is the place to follow the day to day of UN folly. I point to this from New Years Day:

"I think Americans would be proud of the dedication shown and of the work being done by their Foreign Service, some incredibly competent and energetic USAID workers, and, of course, the US military. Everybody in the Embassy community is giving up leave, canceling long-standing holiday plans, volunteering for every imaginable duty -- including some quite hazardous ones -- and doing incredible work, all to save the lives of people, many of whom a few days ago probably would have been perfectly willing to burn down our Embassy or march against the USA. Most of the bureaucratic crap is forgotten and common sense rules the day. Americans are everywhere in this corner of the Far Abroad doing things that no other country on earth can or will do and at a truly amazing pace. Proud to be an American (and for the Aussies, you, too, can be very proud of your folks who are doing a bang up job -- as the Aussie military always does.)"