As usual, Mark Steyn is spot on re: the comments from a former British cabinet official hostile to the U.S. She complained only the UN had the "moral authority" to help the tsunami victims.
State-of-the-art buoys measuring temperature and water level don't cost that much, nor would a chain of monitoring offices. If you're to have a permanent U.N. bureaucracy, that would seem the perfect role for a transnational body.
But, after 60 years, the neocolonial viceroys of Big Humanitarianism would rather maintain the developing countries as permanently helpless children and lecture the advanced world on its tax rates. If Clare Short's right and Mr. Bush is intentionally bypassing the U.N., good for him.
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