― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 22:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 22:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 22:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
2. God forbid a problem be solved quickly, let them drink from sewers for another day or two, can't hurt
3. Perhaps it'd be better if we stole the tanker trucks and had the UK troops drive them around, that way nobody can complain
4. Driving tanker truck around yr neighborhood != surgery, fighting paramilitary troops house-to-house != round of golf
― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 22:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
This world has a long history of humanitarian supplies falling -- often violently -- into the hands of third parties. In every one of these instances the result is that the people to whom the aid is supposedly directed get jack shit or get gouged for whatever crumbs get tossed their way. This is why you don't give truckloads of aid supplies away to the first guy to come along with a truck.
But since life and war are apparently so hard and none of this is anyone's responsibility, why don't we just dump all the aid supplies into the ocean?
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 23:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Skottie, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 23:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
That's for damn sure. The expedient solution too often becomes the permanent approach...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 00:29 (twenty-one years ago) link