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In the end, it's about ammo, storable food, water, medical supplies, and personal security. Otherwise you are dependent on the kindness, risk taking and good will of utter strangers.
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KUDOS TO CNN AND SANJAY GUPTA WHO REMEMBERS WHAT HE IS- A DOCTORThe Haitian people seem to scare aid workers more than Somali warlords, Darfuri Janjawid or Afghan Taleban. Frightened Dutch aid workers abandoned a mission without reaching the collapsed building where people were trapped, and frightened doctors have left their patients unattended.
If these are the concerns and the acts of those bringing aid, then the US Marines appear to be the best choice for real help. Welcome to bitter reality.The experience of CNN's medical reporter, Dr Sanjay Gupta, is telling. In a makeshift clinic he encountered a Belgian medical team being evacuated in a UN bus. UN "rules of engagement" apparently stopped them providing security for the doctors. The Belgians took most of their medical supplies with them, to keep them out of the claws of robbers.
Dr Gupta and his camera team stayed the night, monitored the abandoned patients' vital signs and continued intravenous drips -- and they were not robbed. Some rescuers are leaning so much toward security that they will allow people to die.
The media are not helping. CNN rules in the rubble. "Outside of a military conflict, this is our biggest international deployment since the tsunami in 2004," according to Tony Maddox, the managing director of CNN International.
In the end, it's about ammo, storable food, water, medical supplies, and personal security. Otherwise you are dependent on the kindness, risk taking and good will of utter strangers.
5 comments:
I don't understand. Why are they more afraid of the Haitiens? Are they being threatened? The MSM keeps saying all this violence is going to break out, but so far all I've heard about is some gunshots in Port-au-Prince. Which is not all that unusual.
I've been following reports from the Oloffson Hotel at http://twitter.com/RAMhaiti which is Richard Morse, who owns the hotel. I'm not on Twitter so I can't post, but it's interesting to follow because I know the place pretty well. Apparently a lot of the journalists are there because it's undamaged.
Morse, btw, is a musician, and RAM is his band. I checked out a couple of videos they made at the Oloffson. They're pretty good.
wnat I see is the results of an utterly soft lifestyle from euro socialism.
even when sent to help others in a terrible and desperate situation they are incapable of doing what they are there for.
ive heard similar stories about some european soldiers in Afghanistan.
Oh, for God's sake. It says Dr. Gupta stayed and his team was fine.
The Haitians are nice people from everything I've heard. And, I've certainly never heard any reports of Haitian genocide, such as occurs in the Sudan, etc.
Just send in to ER teams from the Bronx.
They have already experienced more than anything they can run int o there.
Seriously ..isn't this situation PRECISELY what docs in disasters expect? Precisely what they should have been trained for?
Shouldn't we expect that THE VAST MAJORITY of people in Haiti to recognize these folks are not only helping them but doing so at great sacrifice?
And aren't they really?
UN "rules of engagement" = run/hide/duck/cover
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