I Cannot Believe a Liberal Wrote This

People who have been watching the news this past week cannot help but be affected by the results of the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti.

The death toll, as yet imcomplete but estimated to be 50,000, is horrendous. The suffering is horrendous.

Led by the United States as usual, aid is pouring in. The US is doing air control from Arizona so planes can get on the ground in a timely and orderly manner which was not the case in the beginning.

The US is also sending in troops to try to keep the violence in check and establish some kind of order in a place that has never had much order.

It was reported that thugs were running around with machetes hacking anyone who had a morsel of food.

The Haitian government is in shambles but one wonders, if so many of their buildings had not been reduced to rubble, if it would have mattered.

As a child in grade school we learned that Hati was a poor country. If children in government schools today are still taught classes in world affairs (other than we are going to die from algore hysteria about man caused global warming) they will learn that Haiti is a poor country.

As a conservative I keep an open mind about good opinions from people no matter what their politics may be. Therefore I am linking to David Brooks, a writer for the New York Times who has written a thoughtful article, The Underlying Tragedy, about Hati.

He is now saying what many of us have thought for years but were always dismissed by regressives as being heartless racists.

It is worth reading and doing some real soul searching about acting in a more effective manner instead of the usual knee jerk reaction of continuing to throw feel good money at problems that money has not solved.