http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-01-15-general-criticizes-response_N.htm
Retired general: U.S. aid effort too slow.
By Ken Dilanian, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The U.S. relief effort for Haiti started too slowly and cautiously, says a retired general who led the military relief effort on the Gulf Coast after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
“The next morning after the earthquake, as a military man of 37 years service, I assumed … there would be airplanes delivering aid, not troops, but aid,” said retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who coordinated military operations after disaster struck the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005. “What we saw instead was discussion about, ‘Well we’ve got to send an assessment team in to see what the needs are.’ And anytime I hear that, my head turns red.”
The problem, Honore told USA TODAY, is that the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, instead of the military, take the lead in international disaster response.
when did this country become a state of ours and our responsibility?
I have no problem with helping in logistics run ways,water, food etc but the money should come from churches the left hate so much and charity groups.