Friday, January 15, 2010

David Brooks on Haiti

Brooks has his fastball working today. Great article. Talks about the limits of aid as we conventionally recognize it. Goes on to say that sometimes, you have to force change upon a culture, even if it means that certain (debilitating) aspects of the culture are deprecated and lost. Not the happiest of thoughts for some, I'm sure, and yet, I can't imagine that 50-60K deaths were welcome either.

in reference to: Op-Ed Columnist - The Underlying Tragedy - NYTimes.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

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