The cowards of Haiti: Women and children raped and ignored and the cameras are gone.
Last night "60 Minutes" ran an in-depth story regarding the situation of the orphans in Haiti. It's a heartbreaking fact that we once had every camera in the world pointed at this island while it was still shuddering with aftershocks. However, now that the shaking's finally stopped we no longer seem to be able to look at what's really left: An island of the damned. A place where women and children are left like animals to be starved, raped and worse. Actually, animals fare better than these poor kids left there to fend for themselves, starving and alone. Children are routinely raped. End of story. What's wrong with this picture? Everything. For me this is where the story starts, not ends. Sure, it might be their island, or their country, but this is our civilization. It's right under our noses. And, like the cowards that we all are , we are simply not doing nearly enough to stop the inhumanity now taking place there. I'm so sick of hearing abo