Change in the World´s Policy – Subject Crisis Management

 

…USING THE EXAMPLE OF HAITI!

 

…one of those pictures like I inserted above is familiar to everyone of us in these days!

THE EARTHQUAKE OF HAITI!

Definitely you´ve heard, saw or read enough about the earthquake in the media. So  for now it´s sufficient to summarize just the most important facts for you to remember:

   1.)  Date: 12 of January, 2010; 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC)
   2.)  Magnitude: 7.0 M (with 33 aftershocks)
   3.)  Epicentre: Léogâne (approximately 25 km west of
        Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti)
   4.)  Number of People affected by the quake: three million
   5.)  Number of People died: almost 200 000

 ⁽For further information have a look at this video)  

Nevertheless the main challenge of that blog shouldn´t be to report about the world´s crisis but to debate how President Obama deals with such crisis!  

So for now where we recalled the facts we can discuss the question “How did President Obama react on that Crisis? How was his crisis management? …and furthermore: IS there a CHANGE in the policy of Obama´s crisis management compared to the crisis policy of the previous presidents?”     

1. How did President Obama react on that Crisis?

  

Clear?? …summary of the video:  

-> massive US. military response to the Haiti earthquake (ships, helicopters, transport planes and a 2,000-member Marine unit are on their way)  

-> promise to mount an all-out rescue and humanitarian effort to help the people of Haiti overcome a “cruel and incomprehensible” tragedy”  

-> General position of President Obama: “We have to be there for them in their hour of need!”  

2. How did previous US-presidents react on crisis like earthquakes?  

In my opinion we definitely can assert that the US-government pursued most of the time a policy of support and help in times of crisis! With good cause the United States are seen as the “world policy” by many countries today. And even if the previous US-Presidents like Mr. Clinton or Mr. Bush already finished their presidency they come together in times of crisis to speak to the general public (a fact I was personally very surprised of!)  

  

 3. IS there a CHANGE in the policy of Obama´s crisis management compared to the crisis policy of the previous presidents?  

Ok, by the first video of this blog entry and my personal summary below we learned something about the facts how President Obama deals with crisis like that. It remains the question “CHANGE in the World´s Policy concerning crisis management or not?”  

…in my opinion, we cannot observe a change concerning that topic (Thank God!) due to the fact that the U.S. government offered help in most of the word´s crisis of the last decades. (..if this help was always desired remains questionable -> Afghanistan??)  

But searching for a little change I found one fact I definitely want to mention at last: It seems that Obama brings all US.Presidents (still acting or not) together to demonstrate strength in times of crisis which I personally appreciate!!  

  

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