As America reaches out to help earthquake devastated Haiti, it drives me crazy that we find ourselves being critisized by certain other coutries that our aid is ingenuine.

Americans have used text messaging (texting Haiti to 90999 donates $10 to the American Red Cross Disaster Releif) to raise more than $21 million.  The Red Cross reports that Americans have donated close to $90 million in total to help Haiti.  Thousands of Americans, both soldiers and civillians, have headed to Haiti to help with rescue operations, medical care, and help distribute fresh food and water.  Firefighters from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, just to name a few, have gone to help.

Meanwhile, we have certain other countries spewing insane comments about the United States’ aid to Haiti.  “This is about helping Haiti, not about occupying Haiti,” French Cooperation Minister Alain Joyandet, in Brussels for an EU meeting on Haiti, said on French radio.  I could expect crap like this from the idiot dictators like Hugo Chavez, but seriously, from France? 

I say to the critics…Shut the hell up, you stinkin’ pansies!  There are still a lot of Americans unaccounted for in Haiti and being that we are less than 700 miles from that island, of course we’re going to have the quickest response and most abundant support, not to mention that historically, we are the most generous nation when it comes to natural disaster releif.

In my opinion, however, I could care less what the rest of the world thinks about our great nation.  It’s a double-edged blade when it comes to ‘America’ in some other countries’ eyes.  We throw all our resources to helping these people and we hear ridiculous accusations like we are trying to invade the coutry.  On the contrary, Haiti used to be a French occupied territory, should we defer all the efforts to France?  No, then we would be accused of abandoning our neighbors…because we’re racist!

-TF