Posted on 01/24/2010 9:16:00 AM PST by Chi-townChief
More than a week after an earthquake leveled swaths of the Haitian capital, the recriminations are circulating faster than clean water. From CNN's Anderson Cooper to blogs and social networks, questions echo: Why is help taking so long? Why can't the relief process be streamlined? Can't this thing go any faster?
"What on Earth has gone wrong?" the Arab News, an English-language newspaper in the Middle East, wondered in a sharp editorial this week.
But take a step back. While the difficulties of negotiating the decimated Haitian infrastructure are clear and the logistical and administrative problems formidable, could a perception gap be at play, too? Are the expectations of the virtual world colliding with the realities of the physical one?
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It’s Bush’s fault. Zero’s mouthpieces were all over Sunday talk shows with that line. He’d inherited everything, and nobody realized the depth of the abyss. (Haiti’s earthquake problems should have been solved 8 or 10 years ago.) All this said with a straight face. The reporters delicately asked if this excuse would fly and were assured, YES!
The world owes George W Bush an apology over Katrina. Also, that $57 million dollars raised by Hollywood will never be seen by the people who need it.
Last time I looked, Haiti was not a part of the United States. The US had no obligation to go in there and do ANYTHING, therefore deserves no blame for anything they might have done, early or late, to help out. The fact that the US and many private organizations & individuals DID help just speaks to its greatness and the generosity of its people. That being said, there are still no US responsibilities there. We can pick up and pull out at any time.
absolutely agree!!!
You are absolutely right. Where is the criticism of Haiti’s (lack of) disaster preparedness?
Very well put.
US citizens and aid groups get zero credit globally for what we donate.
What we give we do-not want credit for (Hoolywood Excluded) but we are sick of being trashed for not doing enough.
How much has Africa & the Arab nations done for Haiti?
“What on Earth has gone wrong?” the Arab News, an English-language newspaper in the Middle East, wondered in a sharp editorial this week.
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Last time I heard, the oil rich billionaire muzzies hadn’t give a dime to Haiti.
What right do they have to question anything?
The fact is, people have compassion fatigue. The media so overplayed their hand with the Katrina B.S. that I for one just don’t care. I have my own problems to deal with these days. The media can scream all they want; their day of putting the guilt trip on people and blaming Bush now falls on deaf ears. I haven’t watched or listen to any televised media since Katrina.
Agreed—but Bush should have come down hard-right away—not in a desperate, unhinged way, but in a controlled, forceful manner-laying the cards on the table about the douchebag incompetent Nagin, the dithering idiot Gov. Blanco, and in a teachable moment, about the feral, ignorant, animalistic “culture” which reared it’s ugly head in N.O—the culture of “I gots RIGHTS!” without taking any responsibility, the lawless idiots raping in the Superdome, looting CDs at Wal-Mart, the one solid citizen shooting at a rescue helicopter, causing a 24-hour delay in expanded efforts coming in.
And, also the misguided assbags allowing this dysfunction who had nothing better to do in New Orleans before all this happened but to pass a law taking George Washington’s name off a New Orleans school in the late 1990s because he was a slaveholder— (it’s been 12 years since that law—you can tell it’s made a big diiference what with all the Rhodes Scholars coming out of the N. O public schools /s
I am unaware of anything being botched about it. What have you heard?
Just the usual wailing of liberals which is kind of ironic this time around.
There were free blacks in N.O. who owned slaves. I wonder if their names are still on any buildings there.
You know what's so laughable about that? obama was part of that administration he so loves to bash. HE was a big cause of what he claims went wrong. And no one confronts him on that. It amazes me. Throw it back in his face - "YOU were part of that administration - what did YOU do??? Now, STFU!!!!"
When the French colonials colonized Haiti they managed to live like kings off of the sugar cane, the rice crops, the indigo. Why haven’t the Haitians simply followed the same model and turned their country into a paradise of abundance?
By my logic, they should be loaning money to other countries and have a filthy rich treasury.
Your logic is faulty. The French only profited from their colonies in Haiti because they had free slave labor.
How were the emancipated Haitians supposed to follow that model?
“How were the emancipated Haitians supposed to follow that model?”
The same way American blacks did.
Try to stay on track with your own commentary.
What you said in your last post was that if the people of Haiti had followed the model of what the French colonialists did before them, that they would have become a rich country.
My comment to you was that they couldn't have done that without the free labor of a slave population.
American blacks had a self-sustaining culture and economy to meld into. Not so with the Haitians, who had no experience with self government, economics, business, social organization, military, medicine, building/construction, education, banking, or any of the multitude of skills that are necessary to build a working country.
Once they overthrew their French overlords and kicked them out of the country, they were like children set free on a desert island. None of them knew the first thing about how to build a country.
According to your logic, some segment of the Haitian population should have re-enslaved the rest of them, and continued doing business as the French did before them.
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