>>>The longer we stay the more we will be blamed for and asked to fix that too. We could be bogged down forever until we get the backbone to say enough, the rest is up to the Haitians.
An excellent observation. We should impose limits on the number of weeks in which we provide humanitarian aid. We can have something like 2 weeks worth of humanitarian aid, and during that time, the third world government should get its act together. Then we should split and leave them to handle their own long term affairs.
But we had charities working in Haiti before the earthquake, which have been providing so-called humanitarian aid for decades. This is a privately run welfare system, which is just as bad as a government run welfare system. When people get free food and health care for years, without doing anything to earn it, what do you call that? Here is the NYT article showing that Haiti had 10,000 charities working in the country before the earthquake: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/opinion/14kidder.html