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THIS DOESN?T SEEM VERY BRIGHT: ?Angry Haitians set up roadblocks with corpses in Port-au-Prince to ?

By Glenn Reynolds

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.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 15, 2010 (boomark / email).