I have to agree with Ebert.Originally Posted by Lemur
Indeed.Man up indeed. Leaving critically injured people because of irrational fears of what? Afraid of poor desperate people? They should have refused to leave.
CR
Re: Tragedy in Haiti
I have to agree with Ebert.
Indeed.Man up indeed. Leaving critically injured people because of irrational fears of what? Afraid of poor desperate people? They should have refused to leave.
CR
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
Re: Tragedy in Haiti
“Man up indeed. Leaving critically injured people because of irrational fears of what? Afraid of poor desperate people? They should have refused to leave.”
From experience, be afraid of desperate people. I can’t judge what happened on the field but I had an experience when providing humanitarian relief was dangerous. Without my driver who just pushed me, a desperate crowd that wanted right now what I was bringing would have at least seriously injured me. And it was not a tragedy of that scale…
When a more than 1000 men and women, fighting for their survival, run to you, you are dead. Hence the importance or logistic and professionalism…
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire.
"I've been in few famous last stands, lad, and they're butcher shops. That's what Blouse's leading you into, mark my words. What'll you lot do then? We've had a few scuffles, but that's not war. Think you'll be man enough to stand, when the metal meets the meat?"
"You did, sarge", said Polly." You said you were in few last stands."
"Yeah, lad. But I was holding the metal"
Sergeant Major Jackrum 10th Light Foot Infantery Regiment "Inns-and-Out"
Re: Tragedy in Haiti
These doctors had no supplies to take. All they had was their knowledge/expertise and ability to improvise treatment as best one can. Desperate rioters might resort to violence over food & water, I don't think they'd react that way over a team of doctors. The U.N. supervisors over-reacted.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*
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Here I am at my most cynical. none of my money ever got as far as Indonesia at the time, I will just feel good about being sorry for them but charity can find another host.
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Indeed, there are reports of Haitians using corpses as road-blocks to loot the convoys all for themselves.
Desperation leads to irrational things.
BLARGH!
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I agree. I don't envy the unarmed doctors having to face that down. At least the response has been rapid and apparently helpful, though.
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