Humanitarians Are Probably Dummies -- DISCUSS!
Stream of Consciousness post. You've been warned.
Holy God. Watching Ralph Nader on the Factor. I don't even know how to summarize his points. Something like, "pull troops out, then send in humanitarian aid, maybe they'll magically learn to play nice together."
Yeah, that worked fucking great for the international aid workers who got stoned for being foreigners.
Seriously. These aren't Christianized, industrialized, Western people. They're agrarian, Islamicized, tribal. They have completely different ideas of ownership. They won't do what we're used to people doing when they receive help. They'll probably think we're idiots who have no idea how the real world works, because people in their culture just don't ACT the same damn way.
Christ. Give them access to hospitals and schools. They'll blow them up as affronts against the will of God, just like the LRA in Uganda whenever humanitarian aid goes there.
On a secondary note, humanitarian aid without a military escort doesn't work. DISCUSS!
What I mean by that last line is that somebody needs to distribute those resources, and if you don't have the guns, then some royal prick WITH the guns will steal your shit and sell said shit off for whatever currency he wants. Probably vagina. Enslaved vagina. Our humanitarian aid fuels the modern slave trade.
Holy God. Watching Ralph Nader on the Factor. I don't even know how to summarize his points. Something like, "pull troops out, then send in humanitarian aid, maybe they'll magically learn to play nice together."
Yeah, that worked fucking great for the international aid workers who got stoned for being foreigners.
Seriously. These aren't Christianized, industrialized, Western people. They're agrarian, Islamicized, tribal. They have completely different ideas of ownership. They won't do what we're used to people doing when they receive help. They'll probably think we're idiots who have no idea how the real world works, because people in their culture just don't ACT the same damn way.
Christ. Give them access to hospitals and schools. They'll blow them up as affronts against the will of God, just like the LRA in Uganda whenever humanitarian aid goes there.
On a secondary note, humanitarian aid without a military escort doesn't work. DISCUSS!
What I mean by that last line is that somebody needs to distribute those resources, and if you don't have the guns, then some royal prick WITH the guns will steal your shit and sell said shit off for whatever currency he wants. Probably vagina. Enslaved vagina. Our humanitarian aid fuels the modern slave trade.