When are we going to learn that this model does not work? The very important endeavor to feed people and provide medical assistance to displaced persons is a great undertaking and well worth any risk for the benefit it can provide desperate people. Yet, for the vastness of its resources and the access the UN has to military assistance, it is incapable of doing anything beyond relief work in these scenarios. The model being used today is like trying to treat a .45 gunshot wound with a bandaid.
Renewed fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province today has forced the United Nations refugee agency to halt the distribution of aid to internally displaced persons and to call off a drive to register newly displaced people in the Rutshuru area.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) suspended operations after reports of new fighting between Government soldiers and fighters from the rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) near the Kinyandoni Anglican IDP site in North Kivu. Clashes on Saturday and Sunday left at least one woman dead.
There needs to be a great deal of reform in the UN itself, so that people can actually look at these issues holistically and come to some better solution from the international community.
I know I have said this 1000 times in the last 7 years, but if you take the leftist message on any given topic to its furthest logical conclusion, you end up in a circle.
Robert Scheer writes in the San Francisco Chronicle,
Are the media dumb or just out to lunch? Sorry to be intemperate, but how else can one explain the meager attention paid to the truly historic visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Iraq? Not only is he the first Mideast head of state to visit the country since its alleged liberation, but the very warm official welcome offered by the Iraqi government to the most vociferous critic of the United States speaks volumes to the abject failure of the Bush doctrine.
In that the “Bush doctrine” has been to have to beg the Democrats in congress to pass spending legislation that supports increased military activity in Iraq. Or that generals have to sit before one hostile congressional committee after another and listen to Democrats rail against the every effort to create stability in Iraq. Maybe it’s the way the Democrats have increased the ability of Ahmedinajad to show his face, not only in Iraq, but in the United States by allowing a highly political NIE to deter a hard-line diplomatic tone against ” the most vociferous critic of the United States”. Maybe it is all of those calls for the United States to take a “wait and see” attitude toward those who want to kill us - even those sponsored by Iran.
If we fail in Iraq it won’t be because we have not been dynamic enough. It won’t be because we have not learned how to handle situations which crop up from an invasion of a hostile nation and applied those as lessons-learned with a resultant success. If we fail, it won’t be because we didn’t recognize mistakes and take necessary action to resolve them. If we fail, it is not because we did not employ the very best strategists and tacticians this country has at its disposal.
The failure, sir, is not George W Bush’s. It is the failure of the leftists in this country to identify who the true enemies of the United States are. It is the failure of the leftists in this country to understand that we cannot simply talk our enemies into submission. It is the failure of the leftists in this country to support the destruction of those who will turn the clock back 13 centuries, while also spewing forth about how “progressive” they are. Those same leftists believe we can talk to anyone and get them to see things our way because they have just never heard the arguments made in the intelligent manner that only an elitist left-winger can convey things. If we fail, it will be because leftists in this country will do anything to ensure that America is always seen as the “culprit” in anything that happens in the world.
You leftists bought the duration of this war by your resistance to doing what is necessary. If we fail in Iraq, you’ll own that too and for the same reason.
