I see God as one who knows what an innocent death is like from the inside. I see God as one who has found out the hard way that “Shit happens”. In a universe that is not entirely predictable in itself, and where people are free to mess up, a crucified God is what helps us direct our lives towards resurrection, bringing good out of evil, help to the helpless, and hope from despair.
Aid and practical help, and not comparatively rich Westerners conducting abstract arguments about God, are what Haiti needs right now.
Doug Chaplin, at his blog, on the topic of philosophers and theologians responding to the earthquake in Haiti with arguments about the Problem of Evil.