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To: LindyBill who wrote (92967)	4/12/2003 5:53:21 PM
From: kumar	Respond to of 281500

At that level (operational for humanitarian aid) it's reputation is way ahead of it's performance. Got examples ? I have one that affected me personally - UN organized milk bags distributed in India when I was a kid. The milk powder was from New Zealand, the rail wagons were from a number of countries, working under a UN umbrella.

To: LindyBill who wrote (92967)	4/12/2003 6:12:12 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

At that level it's reputation is way ahead of it's performance. John could fill you in on that from the book by Priest,. . . Actually, her larger point is not simply that the UN doesn't do it well. No one does, so long as we are talking about the followup to conflict, that is Bosnia, et al. Her point is that it has been, for US foreign policy purposes, a function of the State department but for funding reasons, it has become a function of the Pentagon. They don't do it well. Lots of illustrations from her book. The not so implicit point of the book is that the UN and State could do it better if they were funded at appropriate levels.