In his Washington Post column Max Boot expresses chagrin that the U. S. is not stepping up to help Haiti during the increasing disorder there:
No one appears to be in charge of this country of 11 million people. The United States recognizes interim prime minister Claude Joseph as the acting head of state, but that post is also claimed by Ariel Henry, who was due to be appointed prime minister before Moïse died, and by Senate leader Joseph Lambert. Because elections did not take place as scheduled, the upper house of parliament has only 10 of 30 senators, and the lower house is entirely vacant.
Power is exercised by powerful and brutal gangs. Gasoline and food shortages are becoming chronic. Ordinary people in the capital, Port-au-Prince, are either fleeing their homes or staying inside of them, afraid to come out. This is a Hobbesian state of nature — Somalia in the Caribbean — and it could yet lead to another exodus of boat people heading to Florida.
Haiti’s interim government says “We need help†and asks the United States and the United Nations to send troops to stabilize the situation. But President Biden shows no inclination to answer the 911 call from Port-au-Prince. Sorry, Haiti. The world’s policeman is officially off duty. You’re on your own. Good luck. You’ll need it.
Although Mr. Boot does provide a small backgrounder on U. S. interventions in Haiti, he doesn’t go far enough. There are two sad realities.
The first is that Haiti has been a mess since it gained independence from the French more than 200 years ago. There is no heroic or golden age of Haitian independence. There have just been different sorts of misery.
The second is that neither the U. S. nor the United Nations have actually done Haiti much good. Yes, the U. S. (actually the U. S. Marines) occupied Haiti for 20 years during the early 20th century. We did not actually improve the situation for the Haitians but we did introduce racial discrimination there. The United Nations tenure in Haiti didn’t improve conditions much, either. The lax sanitation practices of white hat UN troops did introduce cholera to the country.
Here’s a third sad reality. Biden’s policy is to not allow Haitian or Cuban refugees to come here, but to relocate them to other countries.
Golly gee, I wonder why? Could it possibly have anything to do with the fact that they really don’t give a damn about the welfare of Mexicans, C Americans, Haitians or Cubans………………..but just their presumed voting patters?
Nah. Couldn’t be.
The Puritans, our indigenous ISIS, nowadays all atheists, obsessively intervene in places they do not understand (blinded by their own ideologies) and cannot help. They’ve been at it since the founding of Plymouth Colony in 1620. They have caused much damage to many people over the years, and still are at it. Puritans are evil. Max Boot is evil.
The current wave of woke idiocy is classic Puritanism. Notice how many middle class White participate in and control BLM/Antifa. Turchin’s theory of excess elite production also helps explain the current mess, but his is an economic/sociological theory that does account for ideology, which gives the current unrest its uniquely American flavor.
So, leave Haiti or South Africa or Rwanda or… to the natives.
PS. Unless you subscribe to the belief that only Whites can be racists, it is pretty evident that “colorism” prevailed in Haiti from the git-go, and mulattoes dominated.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorism_in_the_Caribbean)
PPS. Cholera has been in Haiti since the world epidemics of the early 1800’s, and it persists there because of the general lack of sanitation.
That’s a very good point. Inconsistent with his caring, more…..Trumplike.
Media should offer him a chance to explain himself.