Haiti... Now what?

I guess you could almost ask the same question of our country.

I agree.  It's hard and thankless enough to be the policeman of the world, but when you also have to foot the bill for the privilege of doing so and being hated for it, it makes you wonder -- what's the point?

Haiti is such a curious story. They share the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic , which seems to be a normally functioning country. It’s an interesting case study as to why two countries develop so differently when separated only by an arbitrary line drawn through the middle of an island.

That’s true, but it’s still a pretty unique situation. The US and Mexico differ ethnically and share an entire continent with Canada and with a border that at least geographically makes sense. Hispaniola is almost like a sociology experiment with a small island split seemingly arbitrarily down the middle, inhabited by basically the same ethnic group with the only fundamental difference being one on the west and the other in the east.

While they have historical differences - as do all contiguous nations - the fact is one is a stable country and the other is a failed state. It’s analogous in some way to North and South Korea but in that case the reasons for the radical differences are obvious. Not so much with Haiti and the Dominican Republic…….Luca

I think that’s probably the biggest difference. I’m not intimately familiar with it but I was surprised once to read how brutal the French were under Napoleon with their colonies in the Caribbean. Still, we’re talking 200 years ago.

Joe Biden’s and Nancy Pelosi’s religion is also said to be distantly rooted in Catholicism, I’m told.

I guess it's not bleeding enough.