The history of Haiti is more complicated in world history than Pat Robinson has indicated. It has less to do with voodoo and the devil than with real struggle, suffering, and poverty. James Dobbins, the special envoy to Haiti in the Clinton Administration wrote in the New York Times: "...the United States will give Baghdad 200 times more economic assistance than it will to Haiti, which is in much worse shape than Iraq even after the invasion." That fact will probably be true even after the earthquake. Ten Million people in Haiti today are cut off from basic supplies of food, water, medicine, or shelter. The earthquake buried Port-au-Prince, a city of three million people under rubble with huge numbers of deaths. For some who have voice and power in media, the dialogue should move from taking shots at Haiti to helping people out of a situation which in horrible.
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