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A salute to Sanjay Gupta whose heroics put to shame a spineless UN and Belgian medical team. |
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2010-01-18, 20:22 | Link #5445 |
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i wouldn't actually blame the belgian team. it is easy for us armchair generals to say they should have stay without actually knowing what it was like over there. But the UN really do have to take responsibility for this, how in the world can they not provide security for something like this or at least help evacuate the wounded.
ps. the canadian team pull out earlier with thier security which is what prompted the belgian team to ask the UN for security.
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I don't see how the medical teams should be blamed. They got reasons to believe that they lives could be in danger. They are already doing more than what armchairs critics are doing.
If i have to put the blame, i will put it on the troublemaking Haitians themselves. If even they don't help their fellow Haitians, why should they expect help from others. |
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The UN does not have its own peacekeepers that I know of, and have to ask countries for volunteers. Some of those countries also have their own policies under which their people have to follow - even assuming that they are under UN command, which may not be the case. The UN isn't all powerful; it's stronger than the League of Nations, IMHO, but that isn't saying much.
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of course that is assuming the peacekeeper were issue real guns with real bullets unlike the ones in srebrenica who were told to stop the serbs with empty guns and goodwill. Even if the UN didn't have enough the least they could have done was evacuate some of the more serious patience instead of leaving them all there.
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2010-01-19, 07:58 | Link #5451 | |
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I'm a bit cynical about reparations for slavery (since the original participants are long since dead, and of course not all whites are descended from slaveowners; add to that, say, a Polish-Swedish-whatever-American marrying into a family that may have owned slaves at some point in the distant past). But in this case, the money was owed to a still-existent entity, the French state. Say what you will, the French here are showing a very strong sense of goodwill, and the rest of the world would do well to emulate them in this crisis. |
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2010-01-19, 09:16 | Link #5452 | |
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It is going to be tough for him. What he needs now is some luck and strategy instead of downsizing. I would suggest that he break the fleet up into solely "business", "economy" and "budget" classes while restructuring the company using his "amoeba" strategy. He doesn't have much time, but he can target SEA with his "budget" classes to earn some cash and shore up the airlines reputation. Add an English version website and fight Tiger Airways for the Asian market before hitting out to the more exotic places like Hawaii or Maldives, which should be the last of the priorities. Create links to China's economic centres like HK, Shanghai and Beijing with the "business" class at more cost AND time effective packages. Continue doing so until the reputation is partially restored, then launch a share sellout to secure investments and credit to pull itself out of debt and bankruptcy. This isn't easy, one screw up, and people will have to swim to go to the next winter Comiket. Quote:
The U.N doesn't just take in any TD/H. Those guys SIGNED these sort of forms and now they want to pull out. It is bloody ridiculous that their dedication is just limited to gain brownie points to go to their "heaven" or bolster their ego/reputation. Doing good deeds is a choice, but dropping out halfway is as good as faking the intention in the first place. As much as it is a waste of time and effort, it is downright pathetic to declare that your guts have been ruptured at a certain point when your personal safety, which is supposed to be at risk anytime, is in somewhat dire straits. As much as I want to help out physically, I lack the professional certification and training to do so (other than carrying a firearm and walking around acting cool). What is the point of sending those pieces of paper called money when there there isn't enough people to put it into use there? P.S I came from a place which sent only $50,000 and 8 idealists who have no f***ing idea what they are going to get themselves into. Make a guess. * - subsections titles
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2010-01-19, 11:41 | Link #5454 | |
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2010-01-19, 11:53 | Link #5455 | |
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This is the kind of thinking that will bury America, pick the best not the one who looks most like you, maybe we should go back to meritocracy instead of the spoils because without merit we have these people corrupted by special interests and reelection that nothing really is solved and instead we get half assed everything. |
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2010-01-19, 12:31 | Link #5456 | |
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I remember the days when there were liberal Republicans and conservative, often racist, Democrats. I had no problem supporting Republicans like Ed Brooke, Leverett Saltonstall, or Frank Sargent. In 1980 I worked on behalf of John Anderson in his effort to secure the Republican presidential nomination. Today there are no Republicans either in Massachusetts or nationally that look anything like these men. Maine's senators come closest, but I don't think Olympia Snowe will be voting in favor of health insurance reform or new financial regulation if they make it to the floor of the Senate. In 1965, 13 of the 32 Senate Republicans voted in favor of the final legislation establishing Medicare. Today that number would be zero.
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2010-01-19, 12:42 | Link #5457 |
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Out of curiosity, would you vote for Brown (as a hypothetical MA representative) based on what he could do for your state? Or, because you want to break a House majority (and other non-state issues), etc? Or, simply because you might (hypothetically) dislike the seemingly ineffective (definitely ineffectual) Coakley?
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2010-01-19, 13:09 | Link #5458 | |
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besides which i thought Clinton did pretty well with a republican control congress. Much better then when he had a democratic control congress. of course i consider myself a moderate, form a liberal progress point of view it probably didn't look that good.
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2010-01-19, 15:01 | Link #5460 |
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I don't care what any of the polls say was the real issue here. I'm convinced that in the end Coakley will lose this election for one reason and one reason alone, she called Curt Schilling a Yankee fan. Granted most people will probably remember him more for his time with the Phillies than the last few seasons of his career with the Red Socks, but those people aren't Red Socks fans. For Red Socks fans, calling a pitcher that helped them win their first world series in 80 some years a Yankee fan would be like someone calling Reagen a communist to many neo-cons. Sure, people might not admit that's the real reason they won't vote for her, but it is and nothing will convince me otherwise.
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