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Kerryn Offord wrote:

Cub Driver wrote:
Name one country where the UN, without major US help, did all of the
things you suggest above for *any* country.

East Timor

Wow. Hundreds of million (billions?) of dollars, hundreds of thousands
of personnel (millions?), and this is the sole successful military
intervention of the United Nations absent the U.S.? That's about the
most damning comment I've ever read on the UN.

The request was "Name one".. that's what I did...

But the thing is that you named "one-half." Their reconstruction
efforts are in the "drop in a bucket" range, and are *not* sufficient.
If the US/Iraq situation were judged on the same scale, we'd have been
finished in about July 2003.

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