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On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:16:38 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:57:52 -0400, "Don White"
wrote:

We keep hearing complaints that the US military is hogging the main airport
with its' one runway for their own purposes (flying in soldiers) rather than
letting all the relief planes arrive. Saw a report tonight of a makeshift
hospital, a couple hundred feet from the airport, sewing a couple of kids up
without anesthetic or other medical supplies.
Might be time for the Americans to go out and play soldier while someone
else runs the airport.
The Haitian people need all manner of medical supplies today...not next
week.

If they don't get some security on the ground the supplies will be
stolen before they get a mile from the airport.
NBC also pointed out a lot of the supplies are coming in on military
aircraft so it is not all "soldiers".

... and who else do you suggest to "run the airport". The air traffic
control system was destroyed. The USAF is doing traffic control with
equipment that came in on some of those planes.

the US has the largest resource base and we're a few hundred miles
away. with all due respect to the french and MSF (a crybaby
organization if there ever was one), they're 3000 miles away and dont
have the lift capability of the US military