President Obama, in his first remarks on Haiti, said that his national-security team worked overnight to prepare to assist the Caribbean neighbor recover from yesterday’s earthquake. U.S. disaster rescue teams are on the way, an indication of the “forward leaning” stance Obama said he wants the government to take. Rajiv More…
Mark Leon Goldberg has a wonderful Daily Beast piece about the Haiti that the U.S. rarely sees: the functioning society that arduously got built in the 1990s and 2000s, only to be ravaged by manmade and now natural disaster.
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Laura Rozen at the Cable has the scoop. This will provide an interesting test of the Clintons’ marriage. Will the Haitian government view Clinton’s envoyship for the United Nations as a backchannel to the Obama administration and the Hillary Rodham Clinton-run State Department? How can a husband and wife More…
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