Clinton plays down Haiti aid controversy

Breitbart (AFP) ^ | January 25, 2010

[Cheap_Hessian]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday sought to address concerns over the US role in supervising Haiti relief efforts after a devastating earthquake.

"The international community must ensure we are working in sync. Aid coordination has long been a challenge in Haiti, even before the earthquake," Clinton said at a donors' meeting in Montreal.

"We must find better mechanisms for coordination, oversight, and accountability to ensure that aid and investments are used effectively."

Washington has taken a frontline role in the disaster relief effort since the January 12 quake, sending in 20,000 troops as well as rescue teams and anchoring a hospital ship offshore to treat injured Haitians.

On Sunday, Italy's top disaster official Guido Bertolaso criticized the lack of a coordinated international aid effort in Haiti, saying that the United States had "too many officers" there and could not find a capable leader.

[Ben Mugged]

I have a solution. Return all these formerly French citizens to France. Turn the remainder of the country into a test range for Navy ordinance.

[Common Sense 101]

“The international community must ensure we are working in sync.”

Another breathtakingly perfect example of liberal “smarter and better” leadership.

[silverleaf]

“we” “we” “we”.... “we must do this”...
“The international community” must do this

WTH is “we”... who is in charge?
Classic liberal condescension and inability to actually produce anything except words and big ideas

“we” have to do something means “you”- so which choir is Hillary preaching to?

[silverleaf]

actually, making PaP a navy test range could hasten the necessary job of urban renewal

[Obadiah]

Where is the corrupt MSM showing images of suffering Black people? They did a great job of showing this with Bush and Katrina. So after all the caterwauling of Katrina Obama STILL can't do it right? Where are the detailed reports?

[ANGGAPO]

It really hurts me to say this, but I think he is 100% right. Right now it sounds like it has turned into a dog and pony show, crafted by dim-bulb politicians and the UN. When our government wants to get the job done it puts a American military man in charge and tells him “get it done”. No United Nations second guesses, and no civilian quarterbacks. Our military, on a relief mission, is second to none. If other countries want to help, we still are running the show. We are good at what we do.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Our military, on a relief mission, is second to none.

State Department by statute has the lead on overseas humanitarian operations. The military has absolutely no authority to do anything other than what they are instructed to do by State.

[Venturer]

That explains the problem.

[gov_bean_ counter]

No question.

[hinckley buzzard]

Exactly. This ghastly quote sums up the whole failure of the Obamanoid "foreign policy" void in ten words.

Meanwhile, hundreds of Haitians continue to die of attrition while gibbering eurotrash yammer at the US and each other from their comfortable armchairs in Brussels. Or is it Vienna, or Geneva, or wherever.