8 Turks among 12 kidnapped by gang on bus in Haiti

Would the UN send in a strike team if Haiti asked?

Would Turkey be willing to send a strike team?

Something needs to make these gangs very afraid. Very, very, afraid.

> theFuToday  11:38 am JST

Would the UN send in a strike team if Haiti asked?

Would Turkey be willing to send a strike team?

Something needs to make these gangs very afraid. Very, very, afraid.

After the US invaded Haiti in 1994 a UN peacekeeping force occupied that country for several years. The US invaded again in 2004 to kick out Bertrand Aristide, who was restored in the 1994 invasion. Are you getting it?? And in the meantime during these years of 'peacekeeping' the UN force itself waged an urban war in the Cite du Soliel neighborhood of Port-au-Prince to flush out a criminal gang.

Haiti needs a UN peacekeeping force yet again, this time with no US intervention. Unlike Clinton or W Bush (or even Obama), Joe has nothing politically or otherwise to again with yet another war in Haiti.

I agree that the US has nothing to offer to Haiti, besides the 50K Haitians living in the US who immigrated under a short-term natural disaster agreement, but haven't left. Even when the US tries to help with food aid, it turns out badly by making Haitian farmers unable to earn a living.

I'm suggesting a strike force to remove the gangs. Because Turkish citizens are involved, seems that Turkey should lead the operation, assuming the Haitian govt approves. But that is unlikely because Haiti is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. It is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. Put corruption and poor together and gangs happen.

I'm not suggesting UN Peace Keepers. Having foreign solders standing on every corner, doesn't fix infrastructure, systematic and cultural problems that prevent good people from taking charge, creating jobs, security, wealth for all. In the last 20 yrs, I like to think that we've learned where other systems are failing by allowing robber-barons to become wealthy at the expense of everyone else. A split of the wealth generated for "public good" needs to be a requirement in places where there are so many very poor people. Plus the fix will take over 20 yrs.