It's sort of endemic to a problem I see with the UN. These development funds are often given to corrupt governments who then use those funds and gifts (largely funded by the United States) for awful, diabolical purposes that are right in keeping with exactly what they have done before. These acts belong back in the stone ages, and these countries that support these acts legally are unworthy -- by choice -- to receive the funds distributed. The outrage is part about the stoning under sharia law, part outrage at the systemic problems with UN development, and part outrage at the absolutely inverted world that we live in, where to condemn this evil is considered blasphemous, short-sighted, unhelpful, and is generally pilloried by the left in our country and in Europe, which is starting to see its own problems with assimilation and immigration come home to roost.
It's a frustration with the notion that everybody deserves a voice, everybody deserves funding in some way to help them out of their own dictatorial messes, and that everybody deserves to be able to comment and have a voice in human rights and development issues.
There should be oversight and an honest debate about what is going on. When I hear that the first reaction of Navy Seals over in Iraq was watching - from the plane - women coming out and wiping men's asses with water, I can't help but think that funds are wasted on that region -- that the region is hopeless but for certain elements. My hope, however, is strong in humanity, and I only hope my better nature doesn't call for extermination or colonization. That there are true voices of democracy and human rights in that region, and we need to empower them to be heard.
But we don't need soccer stadiums that the victimized can't even get into.
