This may be the most wronghead article I’ve read this year.
I usually like Not The Bee, but this is awful.
Haiti is in terrible straits. It’s the worst societal collapse that we’ve seen on Earth for at least decades. Right up there with some of the worst outcomes of communist regimes like Pol Pot and the Kim family.
AND IT IS ALL THE FAULT OF THE US GOVERNMENT.
The U.S. government has never seen an intervention in Haiti it didn’t like. So much so that we HAVE SEEN THIS COLONIZATION BEFORE. Haiti was occupied militarily by the U.S. from 1915 to 1934. In the 1950s, one of the worst dictatorships in the world was propped up by the U.S. there because the dictator claimed to be “anti-communist.” This was replaced in 1991 by a “democratic leader” accused of human rights abuses, and military coups in 1991 and 2004, both of which had the U.S. intervening to prop up its favored regime. The U.S. literally invaded in 1994 to put the “democracy” back in charge, and is accused of backing the coup in 2004 that removed THAT SAME “DEMOCRATIC” LEADER.
The U.S. has further run the elections in Haiti, which have been rife with fraud despite that fact, and forked over millions of dollars in aid that lines the pockets of corrupt politicians and bureaucrats while doing nothing to help the people of Haiti.
Biden is currently refusing to send US troops to Haiti to prop up its failed government against the gangs. As terrible as the situation is in Haiti, this is the right call. More foreign intervention cannot solve the problem.
While the US has its share of troubles, France is the largest culprit. They hamstrung the country for about a century
This post really resonated with me. The insights shared here are so thought-provoking!