Aaronovitch-pull out all the stops for Haiti

If you only read one comment piece in the papers this morning,turn to the Times and David Aaronovitch who writes that Haiti is real life, not an episode of Thunderbirds.

Like many other middle-aged Westerners, I was brought up on Thunderbirds. International Rescue and its flap-mouthed heroes had a vehicle and a gadget for every situation — under the sea, space, boring holes through mountains, whatever. It leaves you feeling that it shouldn’t be beyond the world’s capacity to create an intervention agency that can be sent in to most kinds of disasters more quickly and more effectively than happens now.