Haiti

Haiti was one of the counties that the action in "Emergency Sex" took place in. Here is the latest news on that poor country.

Donors pledged more than $1-billion (U.S.) yesterday to rebuild impoverished and strife-torn Haiti. But even as the international community was warned that it must be prepared to stay for the long haul, Canadian peacekeepers were getting ready to leave. ... But the fledgling peacekeeping force in Haiti is woefully short of soldiers, with only 2,200 on the ground, compared with the 8,000 the UN says are necessary. And nearly one-quarter of that force, the 520-strong Canadian contingent, will start packing to go home this week. The Canadians, who currently patrol Haiti's second-largest city, Gonaïves, and provide the force with six desperately needed helicopters, are part of a massive overseas military pullback being orchestrated by Ottawa. Canada is reducing its contingent in Afghanistan by two-thirds to 650, cutting its force in Bosnia by half to about 600 and pulling all but two officers from Haiti. Canadian forces in Haiti "will cease operations" on July 31 and expect to be home by mid-August, spokesman Captain David Devenney said yesterday from Port-au-Prince.

The U.N. is not able to get anything done when it comes to establishing security. Even interventions that are relatively popular, such as Haiti, Afghanistan and Bosnia end up being woefully undermanned and underfunded. Remember this next time someone says that we should get out of Iraq and let the U.N. handle things.