Haiti: Tragedy and Opportunity

Never waste a good crisis v.2036442

Field Marshall Tarpley explains this well.

To Save Haiti - Fire Gen 'Brownie' Keen, Start Air Drops, Cancel The Debt, Kick Out The IMF

When Japan was gripped by hunger in 1945, General MacArthur wired Washington "Give me bread or give me bullets," and quickly got bread. General Keen seems more interested in bullets, and one wonders why. Given General Keen's extensive record in Latin America, one wonders whether he has ever been associated with the infamous US Army School of the Americas in Fort Benning Georgia, where military officers are routinely taught that the populations of Latin America are the enemy, with Haiti being no exception.

General Keen is lucky that he is not fighting a real enemy on Haiti, because if he were the enemy commander might find a way to destroy the single airport which is now the totality of the US supply line, leaving General Keen's forces cut off and doomed.

Why is the aid effort such a disaster? Surely nobody wants to exploit the situation for their own ends? Who would do such a thing?

Until the situation changes, and there's less of this:



and more of this (hopefully it's for PR, and not organ harvesting as some speculate):



Then I don't blame people for thinking along these doubleplusungood lines...

Always be cautious with this kind of stuff. Healthy scepticism.