Old Project Avalon Forum (ARCHIVE) - Haiti's PEOPLE Really Need Help, Please Donate or Spread the Word

I was following this disaster right after it happened and I was wondering then how come it was so slow for help to come. I remember thinking that help would be there within a few hours and I even stayed up all night to see it arrives, to no avail. Then the medias spinned on it and conviced me that it was normal for help to be slow. Then I saw that donations were asked for and I remember wondering why donations were needed to save haitians, while none was needed to save the banks last year - government simply endebted its people with more debt-money. I thought I were wrong twice until I read this by Webster Tarpley and now I know I was right both for help being suspiciously slow and donations being merely symbolic:
http://tarpley.net/2010/01/18/to-sav...k-out-the-imf/

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To Save Haiti, Fire Gen. “Brownie” Keen, Start Air Drops, Cancel the Debt, and Kick Out The IMF

Webster G. Tarpley
www.tarpley.net
January 17, 2010

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General Keen is lucky that he is not fighting a real enemy on Haiti, because if he were the enemy commander might find a way to destroy the single airport which is now the totality of the US supply line, leaving General Keen’s forces cut off and doomed. General Keane seems to have forgotten the one thing he should have remembered from his special forces training, which is that when units like his actually go into action, they are supported by air drops.

Immediate Widespread Air Drops of Critical Supplies the Key

Effective generals know they need to rush to the scene of operations for an indispensable coup d’oeil well before their leading units arrive. Think of General MacArthur sizing up the situation in Korea during the first desperate hours in July of 1950. Such reconnoitering, or even the memory of a previous visit, would have shown that relying on the airport alone was a recipe for disaster. Instead, the US should have emphasized speedy air drops by parachute of pallets containing large quantities of food, water, medical supplies, blankets, fuel, and tents, plus small electrical generators and small tractors and earth moving equipment. The drop zones for these deliveries should have been scouted and cleared of any civilians by small numbers of airborne Rangers — parachute infantry — coming in at dawn last Wednesday, about twelve hours after the quake. Under the current Global Strike strategic doctrine, the US is supposed to be able to destroy any point in the world within 24 hours. Surely they could have dropped airborne scouts into the Haitian capital, which is not far from Guantánamo and from Florida, within 12 hours after the earthquake.

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