Many thousands of Haitians have flooded the streets of Port-au-Prince this week, angry over the lack of security or any rule of law in crime-ridden neighborhoods across the impoverished Caribbean nation. But Tuesday saw further escalation in violence, as rapid gunfire rang out, coming from the crowd and in the vicinity, causing the US and other foreign embassyies to close operations.
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That country has been as screwed up as a soup sandwich, for as long as I can remember. But it sure made the Clinton's rich.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet the Dominican Republic on the other side of the island isn't a complete mess.
ReplyDeleteTotally unrelated:
DeleteDR:
mixed 70.4% (Mestizo/Indio 58%, Mulatto 12.4%), Black 15.8%, White 13.5%, other 0.3% (2014 est.)
Haiti:
Black 95%, mixed and White 5%
Anon @1200PM your stats show that folks (whole families not just military aged men) vote with their feet. Saw it in West Berlin.
DeleteOnly the useless stay in a burning dumpster (or a Blue Hive).
@Michael it looks like he's pointing out the racial composition of the two countries. The black one is a disaster; the non-black one isn't. Has nothing to do with voting with their feet. Has everything to do with genetics.
DeleteCan you name a single black-majority city or country that isn't an utter train wreck?
Delete@Rick T, WAKANDA, most advanced civilization in the WORLD! Duuhhhh.
DeleteWe have an embassy in Haiti?!? What on earth for?
ReplyDeleteTo assist corrupt democrats in money laundering and sex trafficking schemes, of course.
DeleteI spent waaay too much time down there. At first it was taking illegals back, then invading them to change the govt. I'd bet a paycheck that they miss Baby Doc, its that screwed up. I lost count of the times one of them would tell me, while I was on guard duty while taking them back, "We can't do this. We need white men to lead us". USCG, 21 years.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was with the 101st Airborne back in the mid 90s, my battalion sent a company to Haiti for 6 months after the Governor’s Island Accords were signed. The company sent was very under strength so the other companies provided volunteers to plus them up. One of my joes was a guy from Memphis, grew up in the projects. After he came back from Haiti, he told me he thanked God every day that he was born American. He said that, poor as he was as a kid, at least he had clean running water and electricity.
DeleteCo-worker was a reservist in an Army Civil Affairs unit. Pulled two tours in Haiti; one after an earthquake and one after we "liberated" it. His solution for "the Haiti problem" was to remove all the Haitians off the island for 50 years to allow nature to recover. Then give that half of the island to the Dominicans. "But what about the Haitians?" I asked. "I never said how we'd remove them."
DeleteDamn Amish.
ReplyDeleteThey're such a violent bunch.