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?
Pretty much the only thing we, or anyone, could actually do to help Haiti is give them the capital that has been mercilessly extracted from that country since its inception.
Reparations essentially. Get a jobs program going with donated material and begin restoring the country to actual self sufficiency and building the people to what they should be.
As Americans we have a lot in our own house to get in order, and we should see to it that our oppressed masses get their justice before we can effectively begin exporting it to other countries. And boy, do we have a lot of wealth to redistribute!