Haiti - a sign?
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This is just deja vu of the Tsunami. Not in terms of the tragedy but in the expressed attitudes of all the commentators.
Medicins sans frontieres (medical mercinaries) are now getting all vocal about the Americans. MSF seem to think they hold the monopoly on relief efforts, even if many of them are little more than first aid trained gap year students and backpackers seeking to gain kudos from the experience. Aid worker snobbery, ridiculous as it may sound, appears to be a growing problem.
Medicins sans frontieres (medical mercinaries) are now getting all vocal about the Americans. MSF seem to think they hold the monopoly on relief efforts, even if many of them are little more than first aid trained gap year students and backpackers seeking to gain kudos from the experience. Aid worker snobbery, ridiculous as it may sound, appears to be a growing problem.
Naw Con! Pure case of Penis envy! That or he is still miffed over us being "Ex-Colonials".
yanks might have acres of kit but seems they are short on DF (common sense)
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Medicins sans frontieres
It is typical in these sort of operations for the airhead to become a choke point.
My first involvement was a long time back in the '70s and it seems nothing much has changed.
In this instance I would let the US Military do the command and control. The operation has become a logistics operation and - in my experience - nobody does it better.
Pity that some see it necessary to make political capital out of it all.
