The magnitude of the unfolding disaster in Haiti is breathtaking. With scores of thousands already dead and the stench of death filling the air, and with the infrastructure so devastated that the aid cannot be delivered, there are now very real fears that the casualty figures may be about to grow exponentially.
Thousands remain trapped and buried in the rubble.
Thousands of injuries remain untreated.
No running water, bodies piled up unburied, no functioning sewage system, hospitals destroyed, medicine in short supply, critical shortages of food and fresh water - hell on earth.
The potential for mass starvation, plague and mass rioting is rising by the hour.

All eyes are now turned expectantly to America in growing desperation and with thinly suppressed anger at the delay in the immediate delivery of Haiti’s salvation, as if America had divine powers.
I will not be surprised if, despite all its generous and heroic efforts, America and Americans end up being blamed and vilified for everything bad and thanked for almost nothing.

Depressing doesn’t even come close to describing the situation.