I didn't hear this commentary, and this is not exactly on your topic, but RA
had a guy who commented that alot of countries make aid agencies buy
supplies in the home country with the monies they collect, and that alot of
aid does not leave the donor country. It was hard to get a sense of what
countries that was. I think it is very important to do some good research
before donating to make sure the funds are actually going to the right
places and not remaining in the pockets of the agency collecting it.

There other comment was about suspending interest and debt payments (? 4
billion for Indonesia - not sure I got this right, and I don't know if AUS
$ or other).

Re your topic, there are always the pundits who are prepared to make dumb
comments about anything. BTW I'm betting neither Killer Kofi or the silly
announcer can ski. Kofi Annan lost all credibility when he failed to back
up General Deliaire in Rwanda and let a million+ people get massacred by
not sending in reinforcements for the UN soldiers there in 1993. Delaire's
book "Shake Hands with the Devil" tells the story in complete and
disturbing detail. Unbelievable that Annan is running the UN.
Unbelievable he's running anything at all.

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 14:24, Telamon
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I just listened to a news commentary by Robert Green on Radio
Netherlands and concluded that he is a complete idiot. He complains that
the huge response in of money to the tsunami destruction in Asia is due
to western national guilt and not a response to the magnitude of the
destruction and death to that event. He furthers this line of
thoughtlessness by postulating that this act will be leveraged to offset
any future contributions for aid to future disasters.

This is just another demonstration of the liberal mindset at work with
its distortion of facts of an event, the motivations of entities in
response to it and of course how everyone should behave instead.

It also demonstrates how one stupid assumption is magnified as one
continues to use it as a foundation for further conjecture.

Robert Green should forget broadcasting, go skiing with Kofi Annan
instead, and let the world take care of itself.