I can sort of understand the organization’s reticence. There have been reports of groups of armed citizens, looting, and promoting gang like activity.
If the food is just being “dropped in” via helicopter, who’s to say an armed group isn’t commandeering the food and not distributing it to the needy. Quite a normal thing in Africa, w/out boots on the ground, I imagine it could happen in Haiti too. The relief organizations probably want to get to the places to make sure the food is being distruted fairly.
If Obama is refusing to allow our military to do that...then we owe the people of Haiti our profound apologies for electing that expletive-deleted.