U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frechette (search) said the United Nations was unprepared for the mammoth task of providing humanitarian relief for 24 million Iraqis and hoped it would never be given a job like the Oil-for-Food (search) program again.Seems to me, that this is a good enough reason to keep the UN from being involved in tsunami relief as well. Considering that the tsunami relief will affect an even larger population and a wider geographic area, Frechette's comments are revealing.
She said the responsibility was the equivalent of trying to oversee the entire import and export of goods for a medium-size country.
"We certainly have taken pride in the fact that the program has served to feed and provide basic necessities to people and that their own personal faith improved over the life of the program," Frechette said on Tuesday. "But we have also seen that the program has revealed some basic weaknesses in our own internal systems."
Considering that the UN has refused to release all the information relating to UNSCAM, not to mention rescind diplomatic immunity on those involved, we have only scratched the surface of the malfeasance at the UN.
By the by, Jan Egland ought to listen to Frechette. Egland, another UN official, had complained that the US hadn't done enough to help the tsunami victims, even though the US provided more direct assistance quicker and in greater numbers than any other member nation or the UN itself.
Apparently there are signs of life at the UN. The problem is that there are too few signs spread apart too vast a space.
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