Posted on 07/09/2021 9:43:11 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Haiti’s interim government said it asked the U.S. to deploy troops to protect key infrastructure as it tries to stabilize the country and prepare the way for elections in the aftermath of President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination.
“We definitely need assistance and we’ve asked our international partners for help,” Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph told The Associated Press in a phone interview late Friday. “We believe our partners can assist the national police in resolving the situation.”
The stunning request for U.S. military support recalled the tumult following Haiti’s last presidential assassination, in 1915, when an angry mob dragged President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam out of the French Embassy and beat him to death. In response, President Woodrow Wilson sent the Marines into Haiti, justifying the American military occupation — which lasted nearly two decades — as a way to avert anarchy.
But the Biden administration has so far given no indication it will provide military assistance. For now, it only plans to send FBI officials to assist with the ongoing investigation into a crime that has plunged Haiti, a country already wracked by gaping poverty and gang violence, into a destabilizing battle for power and constitutional standoff.
On Friday, a group of lawmakers declared loyalty and recognized Joseph Lambert, the head of Haiti’s dismantled senate, as provisional president in a direct challenge to the interim government’s authority. They also recognized as prime minister Ariel Henry, whom Moïse had selected to replace Joseph a day before he was killed but who had not yet taken office or formed a government.
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I suspect the Democrats would love to have a bunch of Haitians come into Florida just in time to vote in the 2022 election.
Why? US troops are white supremacist colonizers though.
Yeah, that’s the ticket! Send in the FBI - they always fix everything very quickly....
Do I need the /s?
NO!
Carpet bomb them with birth control.
It sounds like the hit is producing the desired results.
As long as none of them come here, send whatever they think they need.
What’s wrong with the French?
You want them wearing high heels or not?
You got a few hours?
Sounds like a job for the UN. Last time they were there, they started a cholera epidemic.
Yeah chaos
No. Send in the Buffalo Soldiers.
You know....that’s an interesting thought.
The French military has had recent experience in “nation building” operations. And they speak the language.
NO. Witchcraft is your national religion. Deal with it.
Said he, woe yoy yoy, woe yoy yoy yoy
They don’t have their own army yet?
Haiti is OLDER than we are. They were founded as a country
Jan. 1st, 1804. That should be enough time to train a few men with handling guns and planning for battle.
We are not the world's policeman.
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