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January 26, 2010
Haitians of convenience
A Washington Times editorial points out American aid to Haiti demonstrates no good deed goes unpunished and offers a handy list of the usual suspects ingrates.
But for me the centre of the piece concerns Haitian dual-passport holders. If anyone knows how to find a list of Haitian-Canadian dual passport holders to whom the following might apply, please to let me know.
The Saudi-based Arab News editorialized that aid flowing through the airport has been "shamefully delayed," but the petrol-rich kingdom characteristically has contributed little more to the relief effort than telegrams offering condolences. Some delays occurred because the United States was waiting for the Haitian government to show some leadership. Haitian President Rene Preval was the invisible man of the crisis and didn't emerge from his improvised headquarters near the airport for almost a week. Many of the people being ferried out of the country under French passports were Haitian bureaucrats with dual citizenship seeking sanctuary in more pleasant surroundings rather than making the effort to reconstruct their country. Clearly, they think it's far better to relax in Paris while others do the heavy lifting.
We used to describe this sort of thing as Satanic, these days it is called "critical thinking".
Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 26, 2010 08:27 AM
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