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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
As for resources, the last few paragraphs of the article detail how different people are getting different things. Apparently, they are exercising some discretion in the building. Contrast that to public housing's one-size-fits-all 8 room romper-pads.
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Again, I think you're reading what you want to read. The article says a family of 12 got a three story house, while another couple got a 600 square foot apartment. The guy from the couple is griping because the the apartment is too small in light of the fact that he and his wife "will have children soon." So the only discretion I can see the UN exercising is the discretion not to build housing for potential offspring, something that I would think a person who has shown himself to be the sworn enemy of welfare moms everywhere could get behind.
And, by the way, can you explain to me how you can criticize the UN for both not screening the recipients of their aid
and for exercising discretion as to who gets what house? Wouldn't the screening amount to an exercise of discretion?
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Whereas, I'm not sure I've seen any articles about the U.S. bestowing such benefits on individual Iraqis. So, "I guess I'd be interested in seeing a cite on that one".
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Wait a minute. This is a trick question, er, statement. As I have read here many times, the press doesn't report the stories about the US bestowing benefits, so there can't be any such articles. You are indeed clever.
You also steered this query away from what I was originally getting at. For example, in Najaf there was an uprising, which included some local Shi'ites. During the fighting, buildings were destroyed. I would argue that the members of the Mahdi Army firing guns at our troops are just as much "the enemy" as the terrorists in Jenin. Yet I would be very surprised to hear that before we rebuild any buildings in Najaf we are screening the inhabitants of that building to make sure they were not with the insurgents. And, frankly, I have no idea how well we would be able to do that if we tried. That was my point...
