Moscow. (RIA Novosti political commentator...

Washington is obviously aware of this. Last week U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton interrupted her Pacific trip and returned home. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and two former presidents from different parties - Bill Clinton and George W. Bush - have joined the efforts to save Haiti. Apparently, these efforts will not be limited to rescue flights to the disaster area. President Barack Obama got it right. If America saves not only a thousand lives but a de facto destroyed country, it will restore its international reputation.

This is a huge task. Haiti is like Afghanistan or Somalia. As a state it exists only formally and governs a limited territory. Strictly speaking, nobody knows what to do with such failure states. Europeans, for instance, are doing all they can to avoid military involvement in Afghan affairs. As for Somalia, the outside world has imposed maritime quarantine there, albeit not very successfully, but does not want to interfere in its affairs beyond the

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