[Austin Willard Wright]

Your suggeted solution has already been tried. The U.S. occupied and administered Haiti for twenty years between 1915 and the 1930s, and failure was the result. Unfortunately, for nation builders in both parties, the only reaction to repeated failure is to try, try again

[bobjam]

We let Haiti go due in part to FDR's "Good Neighbor" policy towards Latin America and the Carribean. While that policy was appropriate for more developed nations such as Brazil, it wasn't for places such as Haiti. In reality, we should have held on to Haiti just as we did with Puerto Rico.

I wouldn't want Haiti to become for us in the War on Terrorism what Cuba (another counrty we liberated and administered) was for us in the Cold War (which Castor is still fighting).