Haiti needs so much right now. They need doctors, they have a dire need of heavy equipment. As so many public officials have said, they need our money. It is the best way to help, I'm convinced. This is not fair. Nothing about this tragedy is fair. No one in Haiti deserved this. We have to hope that this relief effort—when it becomes all about recovery—will also focus on reconstruction. While we cannot return a dead child to the hands of her mother, the world community has the chance to leave behind a better country. There IS no Haiti right now, as we have come to know it. I saw four police officers in three days, and one uniformed Haitian soldier. We are now Haiti—not just we Americans, but those of us in all the countries in the region, and all the countries that have responded so quickly and generously. We cannot reverse what has happened there, but we can try to restore a country.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Brian Williams on Haiti: We can try to restore a country
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, who received his start at KOAM, reports on the grim situation in Haiti on his Daily Nightly blog:
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Since when is it the American taxpayers' job to provide order and stability in Third-World countries which have a love of chaos and despotism?
This Brian Williams fool 'thinks' that what is necessary is a police state in Haiti by whining that he didn't see too many police and soldiers. From whence shall come these police and soldiers? From the population. Funny, the indigenous population doesn't seem much like Prussians. While Papa Doc Duvalier ran the place with as much efficiency as could be expected, with CIA support, perhaps the natives might prefer more chaos and freedom to starve.
And why are we bringing and letting in any of these people as refugees? They are what they are. It is a waste of funds better spent on our own when we have our own hungry to import worthless people who won't amount to nothing as proven by how they live when left to themselves.
Right now I see Haitian gangs robbing the weaker for the aid given them. What can be done with such people? Haiti is Afghanistan without guns.
The place is an open sewer. Leave it alone and let them have whatever lifestyle they are able to provide for themselves. The only time I seen such goings on was during Katrina. When a tornado occurs in Kansas or Missouri you don't see the looting and disorder that you see in Haiti or during Katrina.
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