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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
What's wit you Californians anyway? Last year I raised my voice at Atty G for misquoting me. My quote from the second post where I raised screening was "the U.N. is incompetent for not screening the recipients of their aid to determine the individual's justifiable and compensatable need for relief". I understand that "justifiable" might be a bit vague, but it certainly narrows the meaning of "screening" to something that would seem to exclude those with AKs and M16s who barge in and threaten you.
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I didn't quote you, so I'm not sure where I misquoted you. On top of that I think you see screening as much more of a science than I do. Screening could easily be "Omar's house was knocked down, but we know Omar used to hang out with that kid who blew himself up at the security checkpoint, so that means Omar is a terrorist, so he gets no relief." That to me is an exercise of discretion, even more so than "you are a childless couple, so you get a 600 sq ft apartment, not a house" is. I think that criticizing the UN for doing one and not doing the other is contradictory.
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Whoa, assumes facts not in evidence. Like that we are rebuilding inhabited homes. I, personally, am against and hope that we are not. Charity begins at home.
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You're right. I have no idea what we're doing in terms of destroyed homes. That was just as an example.
To dodge your policy viewpoint on repairing homes, if I used repairing sewer systems for Fallujah as a hypo, would that be aid and comfort to those who hung the bodies from the bridge, fought our troops, and as yet have not been brought to justice?
I just don't think the US is doing any screening even though there are areas in Iraq which are quite infested with our "enemies". That's why I asked you for a cite.
