Thread: Pact with the Devil?

Originally Posted by Mario F.

The notion of a failed country having to deal with disaster themselves because...well, they are a failed country, is just a modern version of Machiavelli. I pass.

Nation building doesn't work. Besides the fact that it is irrelevant in this case, as Haiti is already a republic.

However I do agree that the mechanisms in place (if there are actually any in existence) for taking a country and leading it from a dictatorship into a proper democracy are all a fail. Haiti is just in that juncture and it should be no surprise to anyone it wasn't ready yet for this disaster.

Imposing democracy isn't the answer.

So I do believe we have some sort of responsibility towards Haiti.

Why? So that we can encourage a culture of foreign dependence?

We are the nation builders. And as much as it may hurt some minds, were today Haiti the dictatorship of 30 years ago, and I have very little doubts in my mind, they would have been better prepared then they are today.

Western civilization didn't spring into being out of empty space. It is nothing short of hubris to believe that we can impose a system of government that took ten millenia to develop on a people that were literally still in the stone age a few centuries ago. Let them evolve their own civilization naturally, do not impose it upon them, as that merely destroys all progress they made up to that point.