I would say it can be arranged easily! I am sure ScareForce One is gassed up and ready to go if Obama needs it!
maybe he can play golf in haiti and arrange a flyover.
I would say it can be arranged easily! I am sure ScareForce One is gassed up and ready to go if Obama needs it!
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The only golf course on the island is now one of the worst tent cities. It's in Petionville (part of Port au Prince) and is where the 82nd AA set up shop (but they're gone). I've been inside it...it was hell before the rains, it's hell in mud now.
One good storm will destroy everything that has been built up since the quake. The country was hit by four hurricanes in 2008.
A few months ago I had dinner outside Port au Prince with a successful businessman and his family (the house would be worth 4-6 million on Long Island - they were living in tents in the courtyard). They were all certain that Obama would ride to the rescue with a Haitian Marshall Plan. I set them straight on that. Obama wins nothing politically by spending big in Haiti and he loses nothing by ignoring the problem. Add to that the fact that the US is broke and you get to the reality, which is that Haiti cannot rely on Washington for anything but lip service.
As for the Clinton/Bush effort...it is a joke. The word in Haiti is that less than 10% of that which has been donated has been spent. My wife and I support four clinics on the island through our own efforts (and the extraordinary support of the Catholic Medical Mission Board). We have tried every avenue we can find into the Clinton/Bush fund. They will not even talk to anybody who doesn't represent one of the four or five biggest international NGOs. This means that all the money will just go to the top-heavy, overhead rich, UN-related or endorsed Charity scams.