ICHEOKU says America's neighbor Haiti is so desperately in need and already nearly flatlined while America spent a mind boggling amount of resources "nation-building" in far away Afghanistan, thousands of miles away in Central Asia. Imagine what a fraction of the $2 trillion wasted on Afghanistan could have done in Haiti and helped it stood a better chance each time a natural disaster struck. Haiti is presently reeling on its back, totally deprived and in dire need of practically every life sustaining things including food, water, medicines and shelter. But the world is not paying much attention to Haiti as most of American media are directing focus elsewhere, ginning up the airport snafu in Kabul as if the world has come to an end; and not giving enough coverage to the disaster in Haiti where so much help is needed and should be surged to.
Meanwhile only about 12 people have lost their lives in Afghanistan since Kabul fell to the Taliban, but in Haiti, more than 2,194 people have lost their lives and 12,000 others seriously wounded since the earthquake struck the island; with several hundred others believed still trapped beneath the rubbles. But instead of putting more of world's focus on such naturally more pressing situation, the American media and their Western allies have diverted attention from Haiti to Afghanistan and you wonder if the color of the victims has anything to do with. Speaking of Black Lives Matter and you wonder if Haitians black lives do in fact really matter as well.
Millions of Haitians, including women and few days old babies are sleeping in the open, being re-traumatized by storm, cold rains and wind. Many of them are without food and water for several days now; many of the 12,000 injured have not been seen nor treated by doctors and their open wound is festering with every minute left untreated. Most of their homes have been damaged and destroyed by the earthquake. They are literary desolate and abandoned; and above all they are just a few miles south of Florida, inside America's sphere of geopolitical influence and figuratively, America's backyard.
But nobody in Washington DC, including Kamala Harris who is black herself, whose father is Jamaican, a neighboring country to Haiti, has lifted their voices loudly and powerfully enough to be heard over the tragedies in Haiti. Even America's Black Lives Matter Inc has mostly remained indifferent to the suffering in Haiti; but the same confused people raised hell when Israel was defending itself from the Hamas terrorists who were firing rockets into Israel just a few months ago, shouting that Palestinian lives matter. ICHEOKU says how about Haitian lives, they are black or are they not black enough to be considered worthy for BLM Inc to intervene?
It is obvious that something is inertly wrong with black people as they do not seem to care about their own, otherwise why would Kamala Harris be in Washington DC and BLM have the power they have in America and the situation in Haiti is this horrible. Haiti was still suffering from the assassination of their President Jovenel Mosie when the earthquake struck, killed over two thousand Haitians and injured more than twelve thousand others. Before that, the earthquake which struck them in 2010 killed over 300,000 Haitians and nearly completely wiped out their infrastructure including their Presidential palace. Hasn't Haiti suffered enough for America to meaningfully help them?
Where was America's large scale response to help Haiti recover? Instead, America was busy spending trillions of dollars in Afghanistan while steady ignoring Haiti. If this is not racism on steroid, nothing else so qualifies. Even when Haiti pleaded with Washington DC to send some troops to help them secure their country following the assassination of their president, Washington DC refused. But Afghanistan did not even ask for any American help, yet two trillion American dollars were gratuitously wasted there, including over two thousand killed American soldiers and over 20,00 wounded others, all which America has now abandoned and America beaten a retreat from.
Query, does Haiti have to first become a terrorist country or a terrorist sponsor or even allow China or Russia to establish a military base in their country before Washington DC will consider them worthy of receiving much needed attention and help from America. Such a treatment does not bode well for good neighborliness nor does it encourage good behavior. Is the country being punished for being good to America and for not allowing their territory to fall into the wrong hands or America's arch enemies as well as to those wishing to do harm to America.
It is sad and it should sadden everyone with any modicum of conscience, the pictures coming out of Haiti with women and children without food or water or shelter, being beaten by cold rain and shivering under tents being blown apart by gutsy winds. It is a shame of America and all American media as well as those in leadership position in Washington DC should cover their faces in their shame of hypocrisy. Charity should begin from home, in America's own area of influence, and not in far away desolate Afghanistan which does not even want Americans on their soil nor appreciative of the great sacrifices, both in blood and treasure, made for them by America.
It is time for a new American foreign policy initiative to emerge that will be Western hemisphere centric; as opposed to the pretentious savior of the entire world projection of power globally. It is disheartening watching the videos out of Haiti and it is only a ruthlessly, heartless vermin that would not be touched by the conditions which those Haitians have been plunged into, especially for a people who did not have much to begin with. ICHEOKU says Joe Biden and Kamala Harris must do something about Haiti in order to encourage those Caribbean nations to continue to remain good neighbors of America and not tempt them into getting ideas that will be inimical to the interest of the West. They deserve better and they sure could use a sort of Marshal Plan to build back better their country and help them have a better life.
Even some countries including Israel and Mexico that usually rush in to help earthquake victims and victims of other disasters have for the most part remained aloof and disinterested in going to help Haiti. Where is American Navy hospital ships Mercy and Comfort or are 12000 injured Haitians, whose country's hospitals were damaged and not even functioning properly before the earthquake, not sufficient enough to elicit steaming those hospital ships to the shores of Port-au-Prince? Are there no American Naval assets in Florida or in the Caribbean with helicopters to help evacuate the wounded to hospitals in Florida to help them at this time of great need in their country. As for those "gangs" blocking off access, they cannot be worse than the Taliban or ISIS or even Al-Qaeda and should be summarily exterminated.
To American media, it is double shame on them as they barely mention Haiti acute suffering and for the fleeting seconds they do, merely superficially, without their journalists on the ground to really bring home the level of disaster for the world, particularly American people, to see and appreciate. Some foreign media are even doing a better coverage of the Haiti tragic conditions more than their American counterparts. It is such a dearth of coverage that no America media was present to cover the press conference of Haitian Prime Minister about the Haitian disaster; but any of them have many journalists in Kabul competing on top of their lungs to bring to world's attention how horrible the Taliban is. It is inexplicably very sad. It is a shame. #HelpHaiti.
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