Finally, Gourevitch describes aid workers moving from mess to mess without accepting blame, and asks how humanitarian workers can so readily deflect accountability for the negative consequences of their actions.
It strikes you as a little strange that Elton John should sing like a trained parrot for someone who described Aids as "overhyped"?
In the early 1980s, some newspapers described Aids as a "gay plague", something that risked infecting the "innocent majority" for the supposed sexual transgressions of the demonised minority.
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It pointed to the need for greater scrutiny of the sector, as well as greater honesty within it, and included some highly critical comments from journalists describing development aid as an "old-fashioned, simplistic model".
Kristalina Georgieva, the European commissioner for internaitonal co-operation, humanitarian aid and crisis response, described humanitarian aid as "one of the world's most dangerous professions".
In a message to Congress, in 1961, the newly elected President Kennedy described existing aid programs as "bureaucratically fragmented, awkward and slow," but he nonetheless proposed a big increase in the aid budget, for reasons that sound eerily modern.
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Digital sensors cannot provide context, convey urgency, or describe where aid is required.
