Haiti badly needs US military

MY response to Patrick Dolan’s question (Letters, January 18) concerning who will be of the most benefit to Haiti quake victims — “the trained killers or the trained curers” — is one of incredulity.

At this moment, when hundreds of thousands of Haitians are facing life and death issues, Mr Dolan thinks it is a good time to take a swipe at the US and its military. He claims Cuba is sending 1,500 doctors to Haiti, but I cannot find those numbers posted anywhere else. I have found 300, with more to follow.

Meanwhile, the US military is now running the inadequate Port au Prince airport in an attempt to break the bottleneck that exists there.