Any examination of Hillary Clinton’s qualifications
for president should include close study of the Interim Haiti Recovery
Commission (IHRC), set up to raise money and Haiti recover from its
devastating 7.0 earthquake four years ago. IHRC is headed by Bill
Clinton and initially functioned during the period his wife was
Secretary of State, running the US government component of the aid
effort through the State Department's U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID).
Simply
put, the massive effort has been a fiasco, with relatively little done
to actually aid Haiti under the leadership of the Clintons. Writing in
the Wall Street Journal, Mary Anastasia O’Grady notes:
…hundreds of millions of dollars from the State Department's U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), allocated to the IHRC, are gone. Hundreds of millions more to the IHRC from international donors have also been spent. Left behind is a mishmash of low quality, poorly thought-out development experiments and half-finished projects.
Haitians are angry, frustrated and increasingly suspicious of the motives of the IHRC and of its top official, Mr. Clinton. Americans might feel the same way if they knew more about this colossal failure. One former Haitian official puts it this way: "I really cannot understand how you could raise so much money, put a former U.S. president in charge, and get this outcome."
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