Re: REALLY OT: News Flash
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On 02/28/07 05:32, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:35:57PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>> the US is arguably one of the most prosperous nations in the world. I
>> think that it is right for us to render humanitarian aid to other
>> nations when we can. This is generally done through deployments of the
>> military (Somalia, Honduras, Indonesia, etc).
>
> I find it difficult to see that:
> "deployment of the military" = "rendering humanitarian aid"
NGOs usually turn tail when it gets too dangerous. The military
(well, the US military) doesn't.
(But that's got nothing to do with whether the civilian authorities
won't ham string them, or get nervous and withdraw them. Or whether
local support for the violent militias is too high, making
"rendering humanitarian aid" impossible without a full-scale war of
suppression. Which won't work anyway.)
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