To Haiti with All Possible Speed

Haiti has always been a exceptionally poor country, claimed to be “the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.” The folks in that awful place have been devastated in the past by one of the most brutal dictatorships ever understood, by AIDS and now by this catastrophe.

Clearly the country was not prepared in any way for this disaster thus the massive global humanitarian effort is stymied by the simplicity of blocked roads. Life is tough and many people died and will die because this country had neither the resources nor the will to provide for the safety of the populace.

Thousands of people are already dead and many more thousands will die despite the effort. No one is to blame. Maslow would conclude that people who scramble for meager rations don’t pay much attention to “amenities” such as building codes. In our country the incident must NOT be politicized. (Danny Glover, the all-knowing” master of things global warming has declared the earthquake was a result of just that).

Let’s just get going with all possible speed. It looks as if those coordinating the efforts are thinking out of the box to devise ways of distributing aid in spite of horrible, gruesome obstacles. Good for them because those people are running out of time.

Full steam ahead; these people do not deserve this fate.

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