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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Poet who wrote (24461)8/23/2001 9:29:56 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
I've met a fair number of relief workers on the job - I had an incarnation as a journalist, and relief workers and journalists frequent the same territories - and for the most part I would never have known what their religious convictions were. When you have limited resources and large numbers of hungry, sick and desperate people to manage, conviction is meaningless, and efficiency is everything.

It might surprise some that some of the most effective relief operations I've seen have been mounted by military forces. No conviction involved; they are simply performing an assigned mission, but - perhaps for that reason - they tend to be very competent about it.

It should be noted, perhaps, that relief aid and development aid are very different things.
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