France and America bicker as Haiti aid fails to reach city
No Bush-Blair deal signed in blood at Crawford, says Jonathan Powell
Taliban militants open fire in Kabul
I would like to quickly look at all 3 of these stories.
The Bush-Blair story while an embaressing and regrettable part of history is not one to be dwelt on; Bush will be remembered as brutal but heroic and Blair as a liar and a scumbag, such is the fates of our leaders.
Taliban militants will for some time continue open fire on people who don't deserve it, they are freedom fighters in their own minds after all. I will look at Afghanistan another time.
Haiti is the subject of the moment. Through the fault of no one the small overcrowded island nation has been ravaged by an earthquake it was unavoidable in the short term. Haiti is an artificial nation a result of French colonisation and Frances later abandonment of the colony. Filled with the descendants of slaves it was never designed for a population of this size and therefore has never evolved beyond an agricultural based society. It is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and it shows. Now with everyone tightening their purse strings in light of the recession, little aid is on its way and so thousands remain trapped beneath the rubble and tens of thousands more live in abject poverty. Never forget Haiti for while it is tragic in the short term it is also symbolic of the wider problem of poverty and the devastation it causes when disaster strikes.
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