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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
No no, it was attY last year. But you guys are both from California. What you said was:
"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?"
My concern is that I'm not sure how I can criticize "the UN for both not screening the recipients of their aid and for exercising discretion as to who gets that house" without actually stating criticism of the UN for both "not screening the recipients of their aid" (in the broad sense reflected in this quote). If I didn't say it, did I not do it? And if I didn't do it, is this like, like (as my lower lip begins to quiver) a straw man question?
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I think you should know by now that if I were (was?) not allowed to ask straw man questions I would ask no questions at all. I'd be reduced to trying to demonstrate my intellect by saying things like "The square of the hypotenuse of an isosceles triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the remaining sides."
BUT, to bore everyone further on a Friday where I cannot bring myself to do work, I was taking your original reply to my questions as criticizing the UN for not screening the recipients of their aid. As in, once this freeze is over they're gonna just build the guntoter his goldarned house and it's probably going to have a tub with spa jets thrown in - oh wait, I'm putting words in your mouth again. Your words are better:
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As an umbrella, i believe the outrage can properly be stated that the U.N. is incompetent for not screening the recipients of their aid to determine the individual's justifiable and compensatable need for relief....
its hard to like the passer-outers of public money when they knowingly distribute the public money to the guntoters, especially if the aid is positively influenced in any way by the guntoting.
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I don't follow how my sense is too broad.
I took your subsequent post as criticizing the UN for apparently giving different people different benefits. I got that from this:
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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. Whereas, I'm not sure I've seen any articles about the U.S. bestowing such benefits on individual Iraqis.
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In the context of "All in favor of letting these guys rebuild Iraq, please show your hands again," that sure looks like criticism of the UN's apportionment of aid to me. Am I wrong? Were you just observing the different situations without implying that one was superior?
