[dfwgator]

If you do airdrop supplies, you’ll have to drop in about a hundred Army Rangers ahead of the supplies.

[Bernard]

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to send in community organizers. Isn’t that their job description?

[Siena Dreaming]

I have a strong feeling Pres. Bush would have been in there by now.

He would have known who to talk to...and would have done it effectively.

Bush cuts red tape...Ozero creates it.

[Nuc1]

Do the drops and keep coming back. Once the people have the commodities in large numbers and understand that help is not going to leave them in the lurch, things should be OK. This riot stuff is more drama queen than anything else.

[dubie]

supply and demand. just “drop” in overwhelming force to outnumber the demand. carpet bomb the place with provisions.

[omega4179]

So Gates is racist. He’s saying Blacks cannot share.

[WVNan]

Well gee whiz, when the relief workers couldn’t get into N.O. after Katrina, it was all Bush’s fault for not coming to the rescue fast enough. With the obutt everything is hunky dory. Some things are just the facts of life.

[Finalapproach29er]

Gates rules out airdropping aid for fear of riots
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Yeah, I guess he prefers their deaths by thirst,hunger and a lack of basic meds like asprin.

Unbelievable.

[isthisnickcool]

"It's a helicopter, and it's coming this way. It's flying something behind it, I can't quite make it out, it's a large banner and it says, uh - Happy... Thaaaaanksss... giving! ... From ... W ... K ... R... P!! No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... I can't tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, Johnny, they're turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenburg tragedy has there been anything like this!"

[doc1019]

Gates rules out airdropping aid for fear of riots

For once in his life I think he might be right. Not to mention that the strongest would collect the dropped items and sell them to the weakest (by whatever means).

[Don Corleone]

Smart

[ColdOne]

“It seems to me that without having any structure on the ground, in terms of distribution> Yet Obama and his minions are going to send 100 million dollars to them.

[Cvengr]

The first object of attention should be how the Haitian people previously ran their water works.

It either comes from well water, surface water, or desalinization.

In any of these cases, all they need is a generator to provide electrical power for a pump, a reservoir or even temp tanks, and some pipe to a distribution point.

Where it connects up to existing distribution systems, and slowly brought back on line, great.

If it means they simply supply water at each utility district on the island, great.

If there are multiple cisterns holding fresh water, then great, it is more distributed, and perhaps they have to use a rope and bucket, instead of a gas or diesel powered pump.

The people will not die of starvation or dehydration.

In the shantytowns, the people are probably more adept at surviving the lack of public utilities than those accustomed to living in subdivisions.

Sending over pallets of bottled water is like sending Marines into WWII pacific beach landings using water wings and canoes from the California coastline. It’s off by several to five orders of magnitude in the volume of daily replenishment required in a population this size.

It is much better to get the ports back into operation and use the existing culture to bring their workforce back on line.

At this point in time, the larger risk are a bunch of international do-gooders attempting to fight a forest fire with a garden hose, and concurrently encouraging all Haitians that they are victims who must depend upon others.

[driftdiver]

Yeah its far better to let them die of thirst.

[VRWC For Truth]

Barry Soetoro will ensure this operation is FUBAR.

[Chode]

they'd tear each other to pieces...

[MinuteGal]

This is a smart decision.

The goons with the sharpest machetes will get to the dropped supplies first.

Leni