One common pushback I get when talking to people about Haiti is something like:

Is your proposal for the world to not be involved and let Haiti sort itself out?

The very obvious answer there is "yes" but pushback to that is "what if the people of Haiti ask for help?" which is a question I don't have a great answer to. Obviously, if popular support is legitimate and not fabricated, is the answer that we should help them? Should other countries who don't have as disastorous of a record as the US help out?

And just to clarify another talking point, but the UN intervening is essentially the same thing as the US intervening, right? The latter is just a proxy for the former at this point, no?

  • JackingIt [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Right that's my question. How you decipher legitimate popular support vs. fabricated popular support and even if popular support is legitimate, should that make a difference?

    Or another way to phrase this. Let's say all of the sudden, hypothetically of course because this would never happen, the US said "we're going to support Hamas because they were democratically elected and clearly have the popular support of people in Gaza." Would anti-interventionalist people say "yeah I guess that's fine" or continue to draw a hard line against it? Or what if it were the same situation in Bolivia and the US began supporting MAS?

    Furthermore, are there other countries that can get involved?