Charitable Organziations That Are Not

OK, back to my irrational ranting.

Excellent, excellent piece in today's New York Post Online Edition that rips apart the pretensions of the NGOs that are "operating" in Iraq today. The writer for the Post basically points out, in excruciating detail, why they charitable organizations (the UN included) are so worthless in helping the Iraqi people.

One of the lessons that got drilled into my head over the years was "be a solution, not part of the problem." Basically it means that if you're going to complain about something, you better have thought it through enough to have a proposal for fixing the situation. Otherwise, you're just another problem on top of the one that you're whining about.

Someone forgot to teach some of the prissy NGOs that rule. They all seem to think that it is best to complain about not being able to go out, than to actually go out and do something. They complain that some Iraqis have guns. They complain that the military has guns. They won't use military transports and then complain about not be able to get things moved. They complain about checkpoints to secure supply routes and then complain about a lack of reliable supplies.

One girl wants to have the country disarmed yesterday - and a weapons disarmament team arriving next week is unacceptable. Medecins Sans Frontiers is pulling out because we didn't institute HillaryCare on day one of the invasion - they have even admitted that there is no medical crisis in Iraq.

This is special interest politics literally on a national scale, with consequences on a national scale. The groups have no concept whatsoever of the common good. They are only myopically focused on their "task" to the exclusion of everything else, including anything that might actually improve the lot of the Iraqi people.

The military, that vile instrument of destruction to the NGOs, is doing more to rebuild the nation of Iraq than anyone else. The military is rebuilding basic infrastructure, whether it be electricity, water, roads or hospitals. Soldiers are working with friends, families and churches back home to bring in needed supplies. Soldiers are providing Iraqis with food - sometimes their own MREs (this is opposed to the food NGOs where one of the workers was arrested for looting). In short, our military is showing more compassion for the lot of the Iraqi people than the high and mighty NGO workers, sitting in gilt chairs in Armanis complaining about having to drive their SUVs around in all this poverty, despair, and danger.

Did we really expect anything less?