CLAUDIA ROSETT: Haiti: U.S. Sends Help, U.N. Wants Money. “In Haiti, the UN has been reporting that it has some personnel working on the ground, and is preparing to mobilize more. But the basic picture so far is that once again the American military is shouldering the chief burden of immediate relief. The UN’s clearest activity to date has been to call for money to start pouring into the UN — with a ‘flash appeal’ today for $562 million.”