I'm doing what silverjackal has said, the point of this post is that we shouldn't be playing catch-up anymore - the way we seem to have gone about this whole business is by running through the world, and providing disaster relief funds after things have happened. I read Brooks as edging towards trying to make things happen before things got to this pass.
To be honest, I don't agree with a lot of Brooks's points about Haiti in particular, but I do agree that we should stop trying to heal things after they happen. Haiti was a mess for decades before any of this happened, and despite some commitments here and there, we have not seriously committed resources to trying to strengthen their government. I hold the foreign nations to blame for this sort of affair, and I much prefer the pro-active response to the re-active response (the same way I support access to preventive care in the US, that shouldn't only apply to the US).
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Date: 2010-01-16 03:17 am (UTC)I'm doing what silverjackal has said, the point of this post is that we shouldn't be playing catch-up anymore - the way we seem to have gone about this whole business is by running through the world, and providing disaster relief funds after things have happened. I read Brooks as edging towards trying to make things happen before things got to this pass.
To be honest, I don't agree with a lot of Brooks's points about Haiti in particular, but I do agree that we should stop trying to heal things after they happen. Haiti was a mess for decades before any of this happened, and despite some commitments here and there, we have not seriously committed resources to trying to strengthen their government. I hold the foreign nations to blame for this sort of affair, and I much prefer the pro-active response to the re-active response (the same way I support access to preventive care in the US, that shouldn't only apply to the US).