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kleinbl00  ·  2887 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Articulate, intelligent Presidential candidates with a proven track record?

You're better than that. C'mon, put your back into it.

    The United Nations said that in total $13.34 billion has been earmarked for the crisis through 2020, though two years after the quake, less than half of that amount had actually been released, according to U.N. documents. The U.S. government has allocated $4 billion; $3 billion has already been spent, and the rest is dedicated to longer-term projects.

There are very few people who will point to Haiti as a success story, but fewer who would say that they'd be in better shape with 1/4 of their aid. Because yeah. $3 billion. But yeah. Still only a quarter of the aid distributed to Haiti.

As far as Syria, the argument is that they've gotten little aid, primarily due to the complex and odious factionalism driving the civil war. Besides which, "Arab Muslims" are Wahabi while Syria is a brew of Sunni, Druze and Shia spread across Alawite, Twelver and Ismaili factions. You're making my point, not yours: Syria isn't getting aid because they're praying to Allah wrong but the problems in Syria are getting all sorts of money because they are.