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Monday, January 18, 2010
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Is there a reason the military doesn't count?
I DON'T CARE HOW SMALL THE FONT IS
(I think you'll find the NY fire department is down there with a search and rescue team. Does that count?)
The Los Angeles Fire Department as well. They deployed almost immediately.
I don't quite understand why the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue teams don't count.
Or for that matter private groups?
China's "public" disaster relief crews are almost certainly PLA "military."
Ditto Cuba.
I love qualifiers! (worst listicle yet? please stay tuned for my upcoming listicle without commentary: worst listicles without commentary)
Provocative!
Yes I believe there is a small oversight in the list above. The US Agency for International Development is public and non-military and has been in Haiti for years. USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) is public and non-military, too. FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) is public and non-military and has pulled 62 people out of buildings in Port-au-Prince.
This is like some sort of opposite-day NewsMax shit.
Or bizarro WorldNetDaily.
While Canada does have a few thousand military there to help out (who were some of the first on the ground there, to this government's rare credit), there *are* also Canadian aid organisations down there now.
Also, I'm surprised that Venezuela hasn't been involved.
HA! Well, they have sent aide. I'm not usre if it meets this list's criteria... whatever that is. But more importantly, they are "involved" as Chavez has called the US' actions in Haiti "an occupation under the guise of supplying humanitarian aide." Now, I love me some crazy Chavez, but does he really think the US WANTS to occupy Haiti and even assume 2 or 3 of its 100,000,000 problems? High comedy. We'll pull out of there faster than a 16 year old without a condom.
That's the trouble. Like most 16 year olds the US doesn't and ends up with a long term mess on it's hands.
Cf: Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador et al.
Well, we've been to haiti and pulled out fast before. There is nothing we want there. No political or economic gain to be had.
There's a commentary in here somewhere, i swear
Man does that make Egypt look bad.
Balls.
"The Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 2 from Los Angeles responded to assist in relief efforts. Florida State Emergency Management Team sent two 72-person urban search and rescue teams with personnel from all over the state to engage in the recovery efforts in Haiti."
Did you even bother to read the Wikipedia article you linked to?
It's incredibly dishonest for you to ignore the all the non-military crews from the US currently in Haiti.
Agreed. I very clumsily tried to make the point earlier that this is the very same sort of intellectual dishonesty that pisses me off about wingnut media outlets.
Not so clumsily I think.
Quick, dispatch the Postal Service.
But there's nothing in Herodotus about earthquake.
Not staying them from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Or, you know, looting.
I had a just nightmare that it was 1988 and I was reading Harper's.
Just!
Canada has (at the very least) Global Medic down there (ref: http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/18/the-police-cant-restore-order-in-haiti-and-for-the-most-part-dont-try/), a not-for-profit emergency assistance agency.
Not to mention all the search and rescue teams, etc. etc.