Haiti Topic

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January 19th, 2010 | Leave a comment

We have been here before with Haiti. Nothing on this scale, perhaps, but with each crisis, political and natural, the United States and other nations have pledged to help Haiti build a better society, with investments in stronger political institutions, economic reforms and improved infrastructure. Each time, as soon as the immediate crisis abated, the [...]

Lucky

January 14th, 2010 | 8 Comments

Nothing like a disaster on the scale of what happened in Haiti to wake us up to reality. For all the shouting, all the anger and political recriminations, for all the overheated tea party rhetoric and the leftist hand-wringing, this country still functions pretty well. Haiti, on the other hand, is such a dysfunctional state, [...]