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David Rothkopf:

The current disaster in Haiti is not solely the result of a devastating earthquake, writes former Clinton appointee David Rothkopf in Foreign Relations. Rather, it has deep roots in both its “centuries of misfortune” and a failure on the part of the international community—and, in particular, its largest and richest neighbor, the U.S.—to help it. Rothkopf says that despite initial attempts to help Haiti in the 1990s, waning interest and “political calculations,” including decisions to focus resources and troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, on the part of the United States and other nations left Haiti poor and unstable. “Thousands are dead,” he concludes, “But it is not solely or even, I would argue, primarily due to an act of God. It is due to the callous neglect of neighbors who were content to live with one of the world’s poorest countries at the doorstep of the world’s richest.”

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