My biggest fear for Haiti and the Haitian people.. is next week

[Peacetrain]

Once we get past the Sunday talk shows.. and people in the media come back and on to the latest greatest debate that gets everyone juiced.

The attention spans of a gnat..

Haiti does not have the infrastructure that the Tsunami survivors had to start to rebuild.

Tragedies of this magnitude are not quickly solved, and will get worse before they get better.

[TheBigotBasher]

1. Lack of media attention is a real issue.

Simply because it was not in the News people forgot there were troops in Afghanistan. People forget that there are still thousands upon thousands of empty and derelict homes in New Orleans.

I also wish to point out an error, which actually highlights exactly what you are saying, much of the area destroyed by the Tsunami has still not been rebuilt.

[EFerrari]

2. And in the meantime, their government will be inking "relief" contracts

with vultures.

I wish I were still a Catholic or even a believer. :(

[SKKY]

3. I heard someone mention on a Spanish news show today...

...that the only thing that will rebuild Haiti is to have it designated a "territory" of the United States, not unlike Puerto Rico. It's an interesting concept.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Well, your point is a good one, but the Tsunami survivors have

yet to rebuild, and many, many communities are never going to rebuild, they were forever lost. The geographic scope of the event makes it pretty obvious that the level of infrastructure they had to start with varied from excellent to absolutely non existent. A quarter of a million dead.
And yet, just today, I read on DU posts that suggest that people have forgotten, that they assume it is 'rebuilt' and that all the help they needed came long ago, their world is righted. I've even read that people never even knew that tragedy was so bad.

[Peacetrain]

5. I know they are not rebuilt (the Tsunami) and they are miles ahead in politcal infrastructure

which will make the what Haiti has got to go through and try and do that much more difficult.