ck: Why, Eric, do you think this should be a US project?
Want Halliburton to run it? Not that the UN is a paragon of
efficiency, but our government would subcontract the whole
project to you know who.
I want it to be run by the US (maybe CDC) and not privatized
or subcontracted so that:
* The corrupt UN debating entity will have no say in its
deployment. (Imagine the UN overruling the deployment of
hospital ships to Baltimore because they seek leverage in
some other aspect of US policy or because somebody like Kofi
Anan's son wants his palm greased.)
* Its operation will be relatively transparent. (Better
$300 toilet seats than $3 billion missing operating expenses.)
* US investments result in direct benefit to the US
economy. I'm particularly concerned about the tropical and
rare diseases our immigration policies will bring to the US.
These hospital ships would be a front line in preparing US
doctors to deal with these diseases by addressing them first
in their countries of origin, and perhaps also would
encourage big pharma to do advance r&d on treatment of these
diseases in anticipation of them becoming big business
stateside.
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