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Haiti took a sharp turn toward chaos with the dramatic assassination of its
president. Almost immediately proposals for another U.S. occupation were advanced.
The Biden administration should resist the temptation to repeat past failures.
Indeed, Haiti offers a larger foreign policy caution. In recent years Washington
seemed to take the Monroe Doctrine worldwide. America acted like it was entitled
to intervene everywhere on earth and treat the entire globe like the Western
Hemisphere. Hence the almost fanatical obsession with at nation-building and
regime change, no matter how unsuccessful previous attempts.
That US involvement in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq were disasters should