What will be the end result for this Island?

[anotheoldgit]

Although the US are the biggest contributor of aid to the devastated Haiti, they are being criticised from all angles for not getting it out there quick enough.

These accusers do not seem to take into account how complex it is to organise aid on such a vast scale.

The airport is only small and there are planes taking off and landing by the minute.

Once the aid is on the ground it then needs channelling to various locations and then there is the task of distributing it all.

While all this is taking place there is the constant threat from machete wielding thugs who are looting, and are not afraid to use these vicious weapons, if anyone gets in their way.

The Guardian reported:

/// In fact, the carnage has discriminated. On the outskirts of the city we drove past the US embassy, which stands solidly and squarely in its own estate, a statement of national pride of another sort. The building has not a scratch on its fine granite walls. Not a blade of grass is out of place in the lawn in front. Even earthquakes meet their match.///

http://www.guardian.c...nybody-coming-to-help

Oh so it's the United States fault, that their Embassy escaped, the destruction? They should be ashamed of themselves.

[socket2008]

The question that has to be asked is, 'does any country have a right to aid'?

If this country had an outbreak of the black death, do you think anyone would come to help us?

Although what happened in Haiti is truly horrific, their attitude and expectation that everyone should drop everything and rush to help is arrogant and presumptuous.

[tara20]

The US is always among the first countries to send help (and above all logistics) and still they get criticized.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

[Gromit]

It is odd that the buildings in the in the northern hemisphere's poorest nation all fell down except for the one built by the wealthiest nation in the northern hemisphere.

I wonder if the disparity in wealth between the two nations had anything to do with survivability of the dwellers in the embassy and the surounding shanty towns? Possibly, this was what the Guardian may have been getting at, but way way too sutlely for AOG.