>At this point the Hatian national authority
>can be considered non-existent…Because it
>essentially is.

Yep.

And many of the people in Pot-Au-Prince, Haiti have the sense of entitlement to demand international aid like Western Welfare addicts demanding a check:

>THIS DOESN’T SEEM VERY BRIGHT: “Angry
>Haitians set up roadblocks with corpses in
>Port-au-Prince to protest at the delay in
>emergency aid reaching them after a
>devastating earthquake, an eyewitness said,”
>Protesting delays, with roadblocks? That’s
>like protesting fire with gasoline. But, you
>know, as with Katrina, getting aid into a
>disaster-devastated region where ports,
>roads and airports are in poor condition
>isn’t something that happens overnight. But
>perhaps it’s a sign of progress in the
>modern world, when even Haitians expect
>disaster aid to be like pizza from Domino’s
>or something.
>
>Posted at 9:01 am by Glenn Reynolds

This is not the kind of “social capital” that can rebuild a shattered society.

It is the kind that leads to it’s disolution.