While the Biden Administration says they have no plans to get militarily involved in Haiti at this time, the Pentagon says they are analyzing the idea, and that no decision has yet been made.
Following the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, Haiti is facing another crisis, the latest in seemingly countless crises over the past several decades. This could serve as yet another excuse for US intervention.
Haiti’s current government seems on board with the idea of having US troops ensure their ongoing rule. Not everyone is so comfortable with another foreign intervention, however.
Opposition leader Andre Michel argues that the solution to the latest crisis needs to be Haitian, and that there needs to be serious debate on what to do next. Many argue that the international community has for too long kept Haitians from making their own decisions, and that what’s left of the government has no legitimacy to call in foreign troops.
For now, the US has sent FBI and Homeland Security officials to Haiti, but it’s to be seen if they are the replacement for a military intervention or simply the advanced guard to oversee their arrival.
History is not on the side of intervention doing Haiti any real favors. The most US and UN interventions can say is that they brought relative stability while they were there, but time and again they left and watched as Haiti fell apart.
People we trained killed their president, why should their people look at the US as someone who would help militarily? And how are we supposed to help with troops? Can our soldiers, with their bayonets, make them become a modern free market nation, with a good banking system, stock market for investing and property rights so that there is something to invest in?
Most of their people live on land that isn’t owned by anyone on paper. Maybe the government owns some, maybe some companies, maybe the people have a right to it, who knows, in the end they are squatters because they can’t buy and sell it.
We talk about building generational wealth all the time. Well that isn’t going to happen when the people can’t own anything but the clothes on their backs. Let them buy land and build homes, figure it out so that the people can build businesses on land they own, then those people have wealth they can pass on to their children and so for and so on.
Who can invest in a place where the people don’t know who owns the land and where there is no stock market or stable banks?
Don’t send in the troops, send in some economic advisors, get some wealthy people to donate billions again and this time use it to straighten out the “Land Tenure” problems, as they call it.
Land Tenure, lack of banks or a stock market, that’s their biggest problem, it’s not systemic racism left over from the days of slavery or even our occasional interventions. We started trading and trying to invest a long time ago, many people have tried to invest there. And we have done a lot worse to other nations militarily who have not only bounced back but thrived and other nations that end up staying third world have the same land tenure issues and they stay third world regardless of whether they have wars or not. Mexico has this same problem, although not nearly as bad as Haiti.
Send in some economics experts, heck send them to our White House and quick, before it’s too late.
Yes. By all means. Send in some Harvard economists to set up agribusinesses operating on a Harvard endowment land grab. Or, better yet, send in some Chicago economists to privatize the school system like they did when the US sponsored assassination of the Chilean president, Allende and Kissinger oversaw slaughter of college economics students who were socialists instead of capitalist pigs.
Anaconda Copper………..
Right, that’s exactly what I was calling for, by pointing out the economic issues and making it clear that troops won’t solve them. This kind of ignorant comment is one of the reasons why the comment section in this place is total garbage.
My point was simple and YOU jumped over it to create a strawman BS argument and why? What’s the point? To show you are an ass? Just to troll me, what?
Connelly’s point pretty much always seems to be promoting the Chinese version of fascist state capitalism. He probably doesn’t know you from Adam.
Should the FBI/HSA prove unable to contain the cover-up, the thing will default to the troops … and Dr. Sanon or look-alike. They can’t allow China a foothold.