Reply #7: It would've been inhuman to let them stay in those conditions.

[Kagemusha]

To the point that even though the outcome was way worse than the Egyptians seem to have had in mind, those people may be better off 6 months down the road than if they'd stayed in that place and had serious outbreaks of diseases that people with modern sanitation just don't get.

Has nothing to do with cost. The sooner you understand that, the better. There's a reason the UN doesn't try to keep people cooped up in places like that. It may seem heartless and cruel but, it's seeming heartless out of compassion when we're talking about the dry, hard facts of displaced persons and human sanitation.

I read this article prepared to accept the Egyptians being barbarians about this, pure and simple. It wasn't that pure and simple when I saw the details. The cops handled this badly after being handed a situation that no nation in the world could tolerate forever and after every effort to plead and negotiate. In other words, yes, they messed up - but those civilians gave them an immense amount of help, including resistance using improvised weapons capable of wounding and killing officers.

As much as I resent it, this article actually made me feel sorry for the cops as fellow human beings. They got pushed past the breaking point and their third world riot control training kicked in, because a riot is what they were faced with. They should not have been faced with it. Those people should have listened to reason. Those people should not have sought arms. Human nature to do so, yes, but they provoked this by refusing to accept that the community of nations simply does not permit what they asked for. Taking a small piece of Egypt hostage was NEVER going to change that. They couldn't accept it and this is the eventual result.

Not that I don't understand. But that is, nonetheless, the result, an entirely predictable one that apparently they were QUITE HAPPY WITH because they decided it was better to provoke a situation where their own people might get trampled to death in the ensuing 'battle' because it would make people like you condemn the Egyptians for barbarism and maybe get the sympathy of the world working. To that extent it worked. I don't think it'll change anything in terms of their physical outcome, but hey, blood makes for good propaganda, especially when we're conditioned to blame Egypt in advance.