Compair Rotary International with the U.N, Rotary suports the U.N. and it's leaders are far to diplomatic to ever say what I'm about to say. The cost benifit ration of Rotary is far higher than that of the U.N. Rotarians pay for the oportunity to serve and hold their own leadership accountable. The General Assembly side of the U.N. is more inclined to serve the atocrates who apoint many U.N. representitives and pay bribes. If your an atocrate you success depends on keeping "your" people in weak barganing positions. Sick,poor and isolated people are less successful protestors. That makes for longer lived atocracys. The "worthy" faimlys who own Pakistan would much rather hand out leg braces(to parents of polio victoms) than share power. When international service organizations solve problems like smallpox it raises the questions about why their attitudes and practices arn't used by the goverment. When Islamic radicals get down with their sadistic selves the atocrates can say, "atlest I'm not as bad as ISIS." Now, they( Asade and others) play a double game and "opose" ISIS like organizations half heartedly. Retoricly goverments are passionately oposed to radicals and practicly they take bribes from them and allow prison brakes. So the roylist class can pretend they are for imunizations and literacy and self development but they can blaim radicals for traping people in hand to mouth, unending emergancy, existance where the people have very little fredom of action and the wealthy faimlys (and their lackys in goverment and U.N.) stay in power. It gets worce. When Western nations see the suffering of the poeple they send aid. The aid is controled by the local goverment. With aid (or oil wealth) the goverment dosn't need a funtioning ecconomy to tax so they can crack down even more.

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Excellent Article!!! I had no idea about some of the organizations mentioned. Is there any reference to back your assertions?