These were my thoughts this morning as I passed the scrolling alert board that displays top headlines from the Washington Times. The headline, “U.N. Official slams U.S. as ’stingy’ Over Aid” was enough to get my blood boiling, especially after itemizing the aid being sent in yesterday’s entry on this blog.
After getting to work and pulling up the Times website and reading the article, my blood continues to boil. For one, the United States is the single largest contributor of aid, a fact which was on my list yesterday and was confirmed in this article. The second largest contributor is Australia and both nations are pledging further contributions.
Secondly, who the hell is “Mr. Egeland” to even attempt to speak into the national politics of any country and recommend higher taxes? Who the hell is he to assume he can speak for the citizenry of any country. You see, he was not speaking only to the United States. He was speaking to all westernized nations. At very best, he has a right to speak into Norwegian politics because, it is Norway he hails from.
Mr. Egeland is not a world leader. He is not a representative of anyone but the United Nations and he needs to keep that in mind. Even Kofi Annan should not presume to make such comments. If it would be wrong coming from Kofi, who is Mr. Egeland?
I find it interesting and ironic that this same United Nations who cannot lift a finger to help in Iraq, is so quick to point the finger accusatorily toward the United States. And I’m not talking about war. At this point, I can understand the war issue. I’m talking post-war. Where are the UN convoys? Where are the peacekeepers? Where are the contractors that can rebuild?
When the U.N. sends aid to Iraq, then they can speak from a position of standing toward lack of aid to Asia.
{ 12 comments }
Aaron Brazell 12.28.04 at 10:16 am
Yes… it would prevent me from talking to you…
Aaron Brazell 12.28.04 at 10:49 am
:rolleyes:
Vinnie Garcia 12.28.04 at 1:02 pm
I bet Indiana will still mess this up :)
Aaron Brazell 12.28.04 at 1:31 pm
Of course it does. I support the idea of using Windows as a workstation OS. The masses are used to it and the amount of training dollars that would be necessary to get employees in a company used to a different OS would be breathtaking. That said, too many enterprises rely on Windows server technology for everything.
If I could design an enterprise network, I would maintain Server 2003 Domain Controllers and SMS servers. I would run Unix (probably Solaris) for file and print, and as clustered application server and I would run Redhat Enterprise or SuSE Linux servers for mail, DNS, web and firewalls.
But thats just me. Mission critical applications should not be run on Windows because 90% of the time there are patches the whole system needs to be rebooted whereas xNix products only require restarting the daemon. Big difference especially when downtime means money.
Aaron Brazell 12.28.04 at 7:24 pm
Alright, Stacie! You filled in quite a few gaps there that I didn’t hit on, but you’re absolutely right about.
Aaron Brazell 07.21.05 at 11:24 am
Yes… it would prevent me from talking to you…
Aaron Brazell 07.21.05 at 1:39 pm
:rolleyes:
Vinnie Garcia 07.22.05 at 11:55 am
I bet Indiana will still mess this up :)
Aaron Brazell 07.23.05 at 4:49 pm
Of course it does. I support the idea of using Windows as a workstation OS. The masses are used to it and the amount of training dollars that would be necessary to get employees in a company used to a different OS would be breathtaking. That said, too many enterprises rely on Windows server technology for everything.
If I could design an enterprise network, I would maintain Server 2003 Domain Controllers and SMS servers. I would run Unix (probably Solaris) for file and print, and as clustered application server and I would run Redhat Enterprise or SuSE Linux servers for mail, DNS, web and firewalls.
But thats just me. Mission critical applications should not be run on Windows because 90% of the time there are patches the whole system needs to be rebooted whereas xNix products only require restarting the daemon. Big difference especially when downtime means money.
Aaron Brazell 07.27.05 at 7:37 am
Well said, Sean. It’s nice to have my own opinion reinforced by someone who is in the demographic I unloaded on… :)
Aaron Brazell 08.08.05 at 1:49 pm
Alright, Stacie! You filled in quite a few gaps there that I didn’t hit on, but you’re absolutely right about.
Aaron Brazell 10.30.05 at 11:52 am
Well said, Sean. It’s nice to have my own opinion reinforced by someone who is in the demographic I unloaded on… :)
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