Posted on 01/12/2010 7:19:11 PM PST by La Lydia
The U.S. Agency for International Development is sending disaster response teams to Haiti to help the impoverished nation after it was hit by a major earthquake on Tuesday. USAID said in a statement it would be sending teams including up to 72 people, six search and rescue dogs and up to 48 tons of rescue equipment.
The teams will be accompanied by USAID disaster experts...
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Sending help is, however, a quintessentially American thing to do. It's one of the burdens of being the good guys.
They need 72,000 rescuers, not 72! Does anyone have a sense of scale? A Mag 7.0 earthquake is dangerous. 10 miles away and 6 miles beneath a city it is devastating. If the city is Port-au-Prince (2-3 million people and no construction standards), then it is catastrophic, the way that Hiroshima was catastrophic. I predict that at least 100,000 people will die. If I were the president, I would send all our naval assets in the Carribean to Port-au-Prince; no less than an army will be able to free the survivors trapped in the rubble in time. I read that many Haitians there think the world is ending and Jesus is coming. America could be Jesus for them.
If we don’t do it, who will? The UN? Yeah, right.
Of course we will send help.
But the place was a disaster before the quake — and when the talk turns to “rebuilding” the American taxpayer will have to put her foot down and just say NO.
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