Looks like Haiti for christ will become a de-facto American protectorate over the next few days as haiti earthquake news is essentially collapsed and non-functional. If we’re going to do it, might as well be in for a dime, in for a dollar get a UN resolution putting orphans Haiti into trusteeship under American protection. We’re going to end up spending billions, anyway, and we might as well do something permanently useful.

You can begin to grasp the scale of carnage inflicted by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake by looking at some of the mind-staggering photos coming from the impoverished nation. Rubble strewn with body parts; gashed and contorted bodies; mud-stained faces of orphaned children; a grief-stricken father holding his limp child. » Read more: Earthquake news in Haiti for christ