American Paratroopers Land In Haiti: And on the Eighth Day...


by William Bowles
Creative-i
2010-01-19


The Americans have landed, or as they used to say of the GIs in the UK during WWII, ‘they’re overfed, over sexed and over here’. So now, in spite of protestations that air-dropping supplies would cause a riot, on the eighth day of this catastrophe (one that the BBC still continues to call a “humanitarian catastropheâ€