IDK if y'all have seen, but Haiti's having a gigantic political & humanitarian crisis,
and the Washington Post is trying to egg us on to go to war with the gangs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/02/evil-is-triumphing-haiti-united-states-is-doing-little/
It's one of those things that sounds so simple. Like yeah, we should just send some soldiers to be the guards for the food delivery ships. But in absence of a long-term strategy, what really is this? Haiti is in crisis right now because it had weak government institutions. The US military can do a lot of crazy shit, but it can't build legitimate institutions for another country -- especially not one which has historical reason to be suspicious of any involvement from us.
Accept their refugees and migrants. Maybe air drop some food, water purifiers, and medicine, though you'd need a foreign policy expert to tell you whether or not that would actually help in this situation and where to put it all. Point is, nobody oughta delude themselves into thinking that kicking names and taking asses is somehow gonna fix this.
All the best to the people suffering in Haiti right now. I'm not super well-versed in world history, but I'm guessing the only way this resolves is that the government continue failing and things get more and more painful until eventually, there's a backlash effect and the public forces the establishment of a stable government. Perhaps that's callous to say, but it's striking just how ineffectual most states seem to remain whenever a foreign power goes out of its way to prop them up.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/02/evil-is-triumphing-haiti-united-states-is-doing-little/
It's one of those things that sounds so simple. Like yeah, we should just send some soldiers to be the guards for the food delivery ships. But in absence of a long-term strategy, what really is this? Haiti is in crisis right now because it had weak government institutions. The US military can do a lot of crazy shit, but it can't build legitimate institutions for another country -- especially not one which has historical reason to be suspicious of any involvement from us.
Accept their refugees and migrants. Maybe air drop some food, water purifiers, and medicine, though you'd need a foreign policy expert to tell you whether or not that would actually help in this situation and where to put it all. Point is, nobody oughta delude themselves into thinking that kicking names and taking asses is somehow gonna fix this.
All the best to the people suffering in Haiti right now. I'm not super well-versed in world history, but I'm guessing the only way this resolves is that the government continue failing and things get more and more painful until eventually, there's a backlash effect and the public forces the establishment of a stable government. Perhaps that's callous to say, but it's striking just how ineffectual most states seem to remain whenever a foreign power goes out of its way to prop them up.
