Comments on: They Should Have Planned It Better http://blog.jamaica-allspice.com/2010/01/17/they-should-have-planned-it-better/ Random Thoughts from an Overloaded Mind Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:29:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: garth delapenha http://blog.jamaica-allspice.com/2010/01/17/they-should-have-planned-it-better/comment-page-1/#comment-136 garth delapenha Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:46:28 +0000 http://blog.jamaica-allspice.com/?p=589#comment-136 Mother of all logistic nightmares this. As well as you have tried to imagine these scenarios through, the reality is exponentially more horrific. The costs in terms of humanity is greater than anything we have seen in this hemisphere probably since the American Civil War. News media professionals bearing witness to this calamity are abandoning their professional ethos and are giving in to empathy, shock and disbelief. They are human, after all. Neighboring governments, including the US, are gearing up their policies to deal with the prospects of massive Haitian refugee populations, even as they offer aid to the survivors. They are in fact machines. Managua, Mexico City, last year's earthquake in China, the Christmas time Tsunami in the Asian islands, have been as devastating as this disaster by seismic measures or in terms of number of lives taken but the destruction of the Haitian capital, may well be the destruction of the Haitian state. That prospect is as real a result as the loss of souls and the immeasurable suffering being endured by the people of Haiti today. Mother of all logistic nightmares this. As well as you have tried to imagine these scenarios through, the reality is exponentially more horrific. The costs in terms of humanity is greater than anything we have seen in this hemisphere probably since the American Civil War. News media professionals bearing witness to this calamity are abandoning their professional ethos and are giving in to empathy, shock and disbelief. They are human, after all. Neighboring governments, including the US, are gearing up their policies to deal with the prospects of massive Haitian refugee populations, even as they offer aid to the survivors. They are in fact machines.

Managua, Mexico City, last year’s earthquake in China, the Christmas time Tsunami in the Asian islands, have been as devastating as this disaster by seismic measures or in terms of number of lives taken but the destruction of the Haitian capital, may well be the destruction of the Haitian state. That prospect is as real a result as the loss of souls and the immeasurable suffering being endured by the people of Haiti today.

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