My father-in-law is a physician who goes to Haiti to give volunteer medical treatment for a couple of weeks every year. Haiti is by far the poorest nation in the western hemisphere. What they need is food, water, clothing, medical supplies and people to administer it. If the United States doesn't step forward immediately, the left will argue that Bush sent troops into Haiti last winter to depose Aristide and then left the country in ruins! That would make a humanitarian disaster into a political disaster. We need to act now, I think there are enough troops there, what is needed is humanitarian assistance.