So maybe no US troops to Haiti. Instead National Guard troops to New York City.
Posted on 03/09/2024 10:00:36 AM PST by rod5591
The United States will not send troops to Haiti after a stunning eruption of gang violence seemingly designed to bring down the Caribbean nation’s enfeebled government and its unpopular prime minister, Ariel Henry.
On Monday night, nearly five days after powerful organized crime bosses launched a wave of deadly and apparently coordinated attacks, the US news group McClatchy reported there had been “frantic” exchanges between US and Haitian diplomats that had raised the prospect of an emergency deployment of US special forces to help restore order.
A national security council official poured cold water on the suggestion there would be US “boots on the ground” in Haiti, telling the Washington-based agency: “The United States is not sending US troops to Haiti to support the Haitian national police’s security operations.”
More than 2,300km south in Haiti’s seaside capital, the mood remained jittery and uncertain amid the still-developing gang uprising that has seen rifle-toting combatants target highly strategic and symbolic locations including police stations, penitentiaries, a container port and the city’s international airport, where residents could hear intense gunfire as army troops sought to repel heavily armed invaders.
“There has been a lot of shooting since yesterday. We can still hear them in the distance,” said Yolette Jeanty, a human rights activist who lives near the airport.
“Everyone is hiding behind their doors at home – we can’t go anywhere. My colleague had to turn back on Sunday when he went out on to the streets because there were too many corpses on his route,” Jeanty added. “To protect ourselves … everyone has to barricade themselves in at home.”
Thousands of prisoners, among them hardened gangsters, murderers and kidnappers, fled Haiti’s two main jails after gang fighters stormed those decrepit installations. On Sunday night, the government declared a three-day state of emergency.
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I'd contend it's already here...maybe not to the scale of what's in Haiti....but it's here.
Tennessee has its hellholes. And California has its nice parts.
The Haitian government just needs to declare war on the gangs and fight to kill every last one of them. U.S. can establish relations with whomever wins.
Send Lindsey Graham, Chuck U Shumer and James Lankford to the front lines in Haiti. The gangs will scurry in fear of that trio.
Ukraine fallout - we’re too busy planning to go into Ukraine to have time to deal with issues in our backyard.
(not that I want to send the boys to Haiti, but there would otherwise be options short of that if we weren’t so busy trying to ‘weaken’ the Russians)
“Tennessee has its hellholes”
Yes it’s called Memphis. I didn’t get out in time and the ghetto is closing in.
Yeah, EVERY state where Democrats rule.
“Am I the only one who sees the Haitian train wreck and also sees the future of the Democrat-run cities in the US? Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, etc.? Believe me, it’s coming. Glad I left California for middle Tennessee over 7 years ago.”
“I’d contend it’s already here...maybe not to the scale of what’s in Haiti....but it’s here.”
Amen. There’s precious little difference between America’s Democrat-run big city ghettos and Haiti. Memphis is a great example. The rest of Tennessee, other than a very few areas of Knoxville and Nashville, is heaven on earth by comparison.
The Haitian gov’t is a gang.
don’t send ‘em here.
Storm the bastille
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So maybe no US troops to Haiti. Instead National Guard troops to New York City.
Just fly them to the USA. Problem for Haiti solved.
The Haitian government is just the biggest gang in town.
Hey, no problemo. Biden will just contact Haiti and tell them to send all their violent gangs here for access to any city they want to set up shop in.
US troops will not help Haiti and never did.
And there is nobody coming to save Memphis and nobody can. We elect new mayors, then criticize them, then plug in the next person expecting to be saved.
Even the formerly nice parts are falling to pieces with only a narrow stretch still habitable; it’s about a mile-wide strip running from the zoo east to the suburbs.
Don’t come here if you don’t know what you are doing.
Once out of this place the rest of the state is very nice.
How about no refugees coming here?
And no more US money?
OK I'm dreaming.
After the cannibals have eaten everyone else we’ll mop up the survivors?
Send in the Clinton Foundation 😉
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