Actor George Clooney will host a televised benefit for Haiti earthquake victims.Photo AFP
To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature -- Mark Danner, New York Times
HAITI is everybody’s cherished tragedy. Long before the great earthquake struck the country like a vengeful god, the outside world, and Americans especially, described, defined, marked Haiti most of all by its suffering. Epithets of misery clatter after its name like a ball and chain: Poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. One of the poorest on earth. For decades Haiti’s formidable immiseration has made it among outsiders an object of fascination, wonder and awe. Sometimes the pity that is attached to the land — and we see this increasingly in the news coverage this past week — attains a tone almost sacred, as if Haiti has taken its place as a kind of sacrificial victim among nations, nailed in its bloody suffering to the cross of unending destitution.
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COMMENTARIES, OPINIONS, AND EDITORIALS
We can turn Haiti around -- Kofi Annan, The Guardian
America's Global Fatigue -- Arnaud de Borchgrave, Atlantic Council
Sunnis and Iraq’s Election -- New York Times editorial
Yemen: lessons from Somalia -- Murithi Mutiga, The Guardian
Looking ahead to North Korea's demise -- Donald Kirk, Asia Times
Cuba's Imprisonment of an American is a Rebuke to Obama -- Washington Post editorial
Tokyo and Washington Celebrate their Alliance -- Too Soon -- Richard Samuels, Foreign Policy
China: the world’s next great economic crash -- Gordon Chang, Christian Science Monitor
Is Hillary Clinton launching a cyber Cold War? -- Evgeny Morozov, Net Effect/Foreign Policy
China, Google and the Cloud Wars -- Holman Jenkins, Wall Street Journal
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