Yes, we did!! And, we also rebuilt much of Europe also. But, when calamities strike in those formerly war torn areas you don’t see the same type of behavior that we’ve witnessed with Haiti. That is the point the author was making, and your derailment of that wasn’t necessary.
Everyone knows how f****d up Haiti is; “kick ‘em when they’re down” - what a lot of people forget is that the Japanese attacked us as well as most of their Asian neighbors and were ready to fight us until we exterminated them like cockroaches; only their emperor came to his senses in time.