Take Your Hands Off Haiti!
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 03/27/2024 - 11:24amWe are all being told that while many are bound to criticize another intervention in Haiti, but this is the only feasible way forward in a very difficult situation.
We are all being told that while many are bound to criticize another intervention in Haiti, but this is the only feasible way forward in a very difficult situation.
It seems incredible to the average American, but the Haitian people don't seem to want the U.S. military to invade their country and impose an unelected government upon them yet again.
The failure of our policy in Ukraine and the greater Middle East gets plenty of news coverage, while the failure of our policy in Haiti isn't as well known.
On the eve of yet another foreign occupation of Haiti,I thought that it was a good time to answer this question.
There is no one reason, and I don't want to downplay the responsibility for the corrupt Haitian elite.
However, we should not ignore the responsibility of the international community either.
We've screwed up Haiti so bad that it appears we can't invade directly.
Instead the U.S. is going to underwrite the next foreign occupation of Haiti.
Thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of people have been killed in Ukraine since Russia invaded.
In response, the U.S. Congress has passed $65.9 billion in Ukraine assistance as of mid-November, and then the White House asked Congress for another $38 billion in Ukraine aid. That's over $100 Billion and counting.
Haiti's current economic and political collapse has a Made in America label.
Many nations are hit by a periodic crises that tests the strength of their institutions.
Haiti is being struck by THREE crisis at once, at the same time that virtually all of their institutions have failed.