Tsunami Disaster - Multilateral Fiasco
Anyone Still Think International Bureaucrats Are Here To Help?
Couldn't help posting this column from Mark Steyn about the disgraceful stuff up concerning aid sent to help the victims of the December Tsunami disaster "Bolton's sin is telling truth about system"...
Remember the tsunami? Big story, 300,000 dead; America and other rich countries too "stingy" in their response; government ministers from every capital on earth announcing on CNN every 10 minutes more and more millions and gazillions. It was in all the papers for a week or two, but not a lot of water under the bridge since then, and as a result this interesting statistic may not have caught your eye:
Five hundred containers, representing one-quarter of all aid sent to Sri Lanka since the tsunami hit on Dec. 26, are still sitting on the dock in Colombo, unclaimed or unprocessed.
At the Indonesian port of Medan, 1,500 containers of aid are still sitting on the dock.
Read it and weep.
(p.s. "Hat Tip" to Tim Blair for this article).
Couldn't help posting this column from Mark Steyn about the disgraceful stuff up concerning aid sent to help the victims of the December Tsunami disaster "Bolton's sin is telling truth about system"...
Remember the tsunami? Big story, 300,000 dead; America and other rich countries too "stingy" in their response; government ministers from every capital on earth announcing on CNN every 10 minutes more and more millions and gazillions. It was in all the papers for a week or two, but not a lot of water under the bridge since then, and as a result this interesting statistic may not have caught your eye:
Five hundred containers, representing one-quarter of all aid sent to Sri Lanka since the tsunami hit on Dec. 26, are still sitting on the dock in Colombo, unclaimed or unprocessed.
At the Indonesian port of Medan, 1,500 containers of aid are still sitting on the dock.
Read it and weep.
(p.s. "Hat Tip" to Tim Blair for this article).
posted by Kevin Francis at
4:12 pm
