The death of our economy and other news seems to have eclipsed the Darfur story in the daily papers. The latest New Yorker magazine has a very interesting article on the day-to-day life of U.N. employees working with refugees in Chad. Definitely easier to read the article than to head over there and see what it is like first-hand…
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Quoting Gen. Petraeus… “Tell me how this will end?”
It seems hopeless, staggering cost/effort for little (if any) gain.
I am continually irked by stories like these which (repeatedly) say things like “The money can be very good”… How good? What pay? Relative-to-what? The reporter thought this point irrelevant?
That “Everyone wants to work for the UN” infers the capture of such a position requires mastery of political machinations, “pulling strings”.
The point that supplies come from a “…vast warehouse in Copenhagen” is a point of mind-boggling inefficiency when the problem is in Chad…
Then again, I am *not* there and I am naive to the reality of the situation…