Four out of five dentists

Four out of five dentists agree: the UN isn't doing the deal in Darfur.
Surprisingly, even the UN agrees with that assessment. Those dentists are onto something!

GENEVA - The United Nations is failing to protect millions
of people displaced by conflict in Sudan's Darfur region and violence
in other hotspots around the world, a U.N. report said Friday. The
world body's approach to the problem of people who have fled their
homes but not crossed any international borders "is still largely ad
hoc and driven more by the personalities and convictions of individuals
on the ground than by an institutional, systemwide agenda," the report
said.
{...}Three different U.N. agencies have staff in Darfur, but their
access to the displaced and their activity there have frequently been
limited because Sudan's government has at times been reluctant to allow
outside involvement, McNamara said. The Sudanese government is allowing
the United Nations access to camps in Darfur, but U.N. activity is
still limited by a lack of staff and funding. That shortage means the
world body has been unable to provide AIDS tests and psychological
counseling for rape victims in Darfur's camps, which McNamara called
unacceptable

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Why, those pesky UN officials are just like cavities! People starve in
one country (Iraq) because of the UN's internal graft protection system
and they're investigating the matter! People are dying, being forced to
flee from their homes, and enough raping and pillaging is going on in
Darfur to make a Centurion proud, and they're issuing a report about
how they're not doing so good of a job. Wow. I'm impressed, aren't you?
It's as if the plaque in the veritable mouth of the UN just stood up
and screamed to be removed. I'm all for whipping out the drill and
having at it.

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