Haiti to become under temporary American control?

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http://us.cnn.com/2010/US/01/14/us.haiti.airport/index.html?hpt=T2

I just heard on the radio that the US military is taking over the main airport in Port-Au-Prince. How much farther will this go?

Will the US take over the security situation in the entire country..or even just the capital?

If anyone is to assume control for any part of that pathetic country, it should be the UN..and not one single nation.
 
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parky76 said:
http://us.cnn.com/2010/US/01/14/us.haiti.airport/index.html?hpt=T2

I just heard on the radio that the US military is taking over the main airport in Port-Au-Prince. How much farther will this go?

Will the US take over the security situation in the entire country..or even just the capital?

If anyone is to assume control for any part of that pathetic country, it should be the UN..and not one single nation.
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Did Haiti ask for the help? I don't see that anywhere in the article.
 
parky76 said:
http://us.cnn.com/2010/US/01/14/us.haiti.airport/index.html?hpt=T2

I just heard on the radio that the US military is taking over the main airport in Port-Au-Prince. How much farther will this go?

Will the US take over the security situation in the entire country..or even just the capital?

If anyone is to assume control for any part of that pathetic country, it should be the UN..and not one single nation.
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The UN in the coutry is currently suffering from a bad case of a building landing on it.

In the sort term some level of order is needed and the only people on the planet able to do that in the short term are the US. I assume that once the situation has calmed down a bit control will be handed back to Brazil (AKA MINUSTAH).

It's hardly an uncommon practice and with care it can work well enough. Operation Palliser for example is generaly accepted as being fairly responcible for the current period of relative stability in of Sierra Leone.
 
dudalb said:
What the hell would the US have to gain from taking over that Hellhole of a country?
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good PR.

10,000 troops will be there tomorrow..I believe.

i predict hard-core american security assistance for a while. who knows how many local cops and troops are dead or injured.
 
parky76 said:
http://us.cnn.com/2010/US/01/14/us.haiti.airport/index.html?hpt=T2

I just heard on the radio that the US military is taking over the main airport in Port-Au-Prince. How much farther will this go?

Will the US take over the security situation in the entire country..or even just the capital?

If anyone is to assume control for any part of that pathetic country, it should be the UN..and not one single nation.
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A. We are taking over operation of the airport with permission of the Haitian Government..what there is of it.
 
dudalb said:
A. We are taking over operation of the airport with permission of the Haitian Government..what there is of it.
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well, i predict a lot more will be deemed necessary as the days and weeks go on.

but who knows.
 
dudalb said:
What the hell would the US have to gain from taking over that Hellhole of a country?
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Mostly because it's embarrassing to have such a depressing country so close to you.
 
I agree with parky76. America should take a strictly hands-off stance towards Haiti. No air traffic controllers, no security forces, no rescue teams, no supply flights of any kind; until the UN has established a functional and secure airfield, deployed a fully operational ground transportation infrastructure, and provided adequate shelter and sewage for any and all aid workers.

Or maybe I think that the first with the most have a solemn duty to do everything they can to help the people of Haiti, even if it means taking charge of the situation instead of waiting around while people suffer and die, for someone else to do what's necessary.
 
theprestige said:
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Or maybe I think that the first with the most have a solemn duty to do everything they can to help the people of Haiti, even if it means taking charge of the situation instead of waiting around while people suffer and die, for someone else to do what's necessary.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This.
 
theprestige said:
I agree with parky76. America should take a strictly hands-off stance towards Haiti. No air traffic controllers, no security forces, no rescue teams, no supply flights of any kind; until the UN has established a functional and secure airfield, deployed a fully operational ground transportation infrastructure, and provided adequate shelter and sewage for any and all aid workers.

Or maybe I think that the first with the most have a solemn duty to do everything they can to help the people of Haiti, even if it means taking charge of the situation instead of waiting around while people suffer and die, for someone else to do what's necessary.
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And if the someone you are waiting around for means the Haitian Government, you will be waiting until Satan can go ice skating on his front lawn.
 
dudalb said:
And if the someone you are waiting around for means the Haitian Government, you will be waiting until Satan can go ice skating on his front lawn.
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Well, heaven forbid anybody offend parky76 by usurping the Haitian government's sovreign authority to provide for its own citizens in this their time of greatest need.
 
I wouldn't see anything at all wrong with the US moving in and declaring the entire country under US control at this point in time. From what I can tell from the news, there isn't a Haitian state at the moment. Nothing resembling government. If the US can move in and take charge, and if that's the best way to get aid moving, then it's not just a good thing to do, but the right thing to do.
 
parky76 said:
http://us.cnn.com/2010/US/01/14/us.haiti.airport/index.html?hpt=T2

I just heard on the radio that the US military is taking over the main airport in Port-Au-Prince. How much farther will this go?

Will the US take over the security situation in the entire country..or even just the capital?

If anyone is to assume control for any part of that pathetic country, it should be the UN..and not one single nation.
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Obama will make Haiti a dependent state just like Puerto Rico and Israel.
 
America is getting involved in Haiti the same way she go involved in Somalia...and we all know how well that turned out.

Suckers
 
dudalb said:
A. We are taking over operation of the airport with permission of the Haitian Government..what there is of it.
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The last I heard (more than 24 hours ago), the Haitian ambassador in Washington D.C. hadn't been able to contact anyone in the government back home.

Did permission perhaps come from him, or has there been some re-establishment of some form of government in Haiti? (A lot can happen in 24 hours.)
 
Does anyone think the Haitian government is really going to tell the US to "leave and go home?"
 
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