Posted on 01/13/2010 2:58:47 PM PST by tobyhill
The gods of politics have an ironic sense of justice. They can force a president to confront more complex versions of the very problems we thought we had solved by electing him. As you judge, so shall you be judged: sometimes there is an almost mathematical precision to it. Just ask President Barack Obama. Elected to end the war in Iraq, he finds himself deep in a metastasizing war against Al Qaeda and its allies in Afghanistan and, perhaps, elsewhere. Elected to bring America out of a recession, he now has to deal with our dwindling role in a global economy dominated by the BRICs and by the rapidly growing, smaller "frontier" countries.
And now: Haiti.
Elected in part out of revulsion at the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, Obama now finds himself confronting an even more devastating and complex humanitarian crisis.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.newsweek.com ...
“We should also offer to help re-build. Its only 9 million people in the whole nation.”
I’m sure we will. The US won’t just HELP rebuild, we’ll be stuck with the WHOLE thing. Why not? If we run out of money, we’ll just print more. I’m sure other countries will promise help that will never materialize, just like they always do.
They could send some FEMA trailers to Haiti.
Certainly unlike the ingrates we have here, the Haitians would actually appreciate them.
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