Divided over Haiti | The Economist. How do we make long-term development work?
I STAND corrected: apparently what's really dividing the nation isn't old-fashioned cultural politics, nor even health-care reform, but the impression that Barack Obama responded more rapidly and aggressively to the earthquake in Haiti than he did to the "underwear bomber". What, after all, is a disaster with tens of thousands of people dead, compared to an incident that might have killed a hundred-odd people, except that it didn't? Particularly where one merely involves Haitian victims, while the other involves a Muslim bad guy?
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