US Humanitarian Aid Benefits ISIS

[hooky]

Awesome. Glad we can help.

U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS - The Daily Beast

We have to bribe ISIS in order to get the aid to the people who need it, whom ISIS has already promised to feed anyway.

 

[Twangbanger]

This is a courageous article by the writer.

Unfortunately, I suspect it will be largely dismissed by most, because Americans (younger ones in particular) have been conditioned to have a "Doctors Without Borders" mentality regarding things such as this, and are incapable of strategically calculating how "humanitarian aid" can be counterproductive in some cases.

I'm no expert, but it seems the better approach would be to put out a statement saying we're stopping the aid because we can't assure the safety of the people delivering it, as long as ISIS is in control of the area.

NGOs are very much like the government in that they see it as their job to spend money no matter what, and have to keep the "resource burn" going regardless what the strategic implications on the ground might be. In my opinion, if the points in the article are known to be true, then the aid agencies are actually wasting donor money in order to continue the image they're doing something, and justify their jobs.

There's a lot of places in the world that money could do a lot of good, without enriching the coffers of ISIS (like, hello, have they ever heard of Ebola in Africa?)

 

[BogWalker]

I remember reading stories from a tunnel rat in Vietnam. He mentioned at one point finding boxes of food and clothing that were donated as aid to the Vietnamese "civilians" in the Vietcong tunnels.

The bleeding hearts of the world always find a way to screw us over, don't they?

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

The bleeding hearts of the world always find a way to screw us over, don't they?

I think it's all part of their secret evil plan.