The Diplomad

Here's what happens when you allow conservatives into the State Department. They mock. They MOCK the efforts of well-intentioned bleeding hearts to make a difference through diplomacy and lots and lots of meetings. The site is run by US Foreign Service officers who seem to have a problem with authority -- just as those authorities had a problem with authority when they were pothead liberal arts students during the 60s and 70s. You'll find The Diplomad HERE. Here's a first-hand account from someone on the ground of what's really going on in southern Asia. In this part of the tsunami-wrecked Far Abroad, the UN is still nowhere to be seen where it counts, i.e., feeding and helping victims. The relief effort continues to be a US-Australia effort, with Singapore now in and coordinating closely with the US and Australia. Other countries are also signing up to be part of the US-Australia effort. Nobody wants to be "coordinated" by the UN. The local UN reps are getting desperate. They're calling for yet another meeting this afternoon; they've flown in more UN big shots to lecture us all on "coordination" and the need to work together, i.e., let the UN take credit. With Kofi about to arrive for a big conference, the UNocrats are scrambling to show something, anything as a UN accomplishment. Don't be surprised if they claim that the USS Abraham Lincoln is under UN control and that President Lincoln was a strong supporter of the UN. And if that weren't shameful enough, there's this, also from Diplomad: A colleague came back from a meeting held by the local UN representative yesterday and reported that the UN rep had said that while it was a good thing that the Australians and Americans were running the air ops into tsunami-wrecked Aceh, for cultural and political reasons, those Australians and Americans really "should go blue." In other words, they should switch into UN uniforms and give up their national ones. Apparently the UN wants to take credit for all the things they are NOT doing.