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...there are reasons beyond the police department?s expertise for our quiet time. Plainly, demonstrators had no stomach for a real confrontation with the heroes of Sept. 11; equally, it has been very clear from talking to representatives of NGOs that the events in Genoa, which led to one death, have persuaded them to stay away from any demo that was likely to be hijacked by anarchists and the Black Blocs. Some of us have been urging responsible NGOs to take such a position since the riots in Prague at the World Bank/IMF meetings in 2000; better late than never...
...looks like what is happening is some sort of silent genocide,” Noam Chomsky wrote in a recent op-ed. Before the war, eight million Afganis were on the brink of starvation. The only thing keeping these people alive was the food rations provided by international NGOs and the United Nations World Food Program. But when the bombing began, these organizations were forced to abandon the eight million Afghanis who depended on them for their daily bread. Suppose the food drop operation was flawless and all 37,000 daily packets reach their intended recipients. Even under this best...
...mosques or occupied the houses of ordinary people in congested neighborhoods. "They know the U.S. won't hit a mosque," says Abdul Ghafoor, 45, a truck driver. Locals claim that Arab allies of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban have lodged themselves in buildings left empty by various NGOs and U.N.-affiliated organizations, which were vacated when the U.S. attacks seemed inevitable...
...gabfests since the first Earth Summit at Rio in 1992, the conference at Durban was but the formal core of a giant carnival, something like a medieval ice fair in a Bruegel painting. Increasingly, these "forums" of nongovernmental organizations have become the main event. In principle, the participation of ngos in international meetings is to be welcomed; it opens up debate beyond the stilted language and well-rehearsed positions of the diplomats. But the practice can be very different...
...asserts a self-centered policy on, say, missile defense or global warming, it is speaking a language that many others now consider archaic. (Not all: remember China.) In fact, even in America, the old ways of thinking about foreign policy are visibly under threat. It is American-led NGOs who have argued loudest for humanitarian intervention and for elevating the environment into an issue of foreign policy. Perhaps most interestingly, 25 years of mass immigration to the U.S. - the bulk of it from Latin America and Asia - may make it harder for tomorrow's policymakers to forge a defined national...