“The only way to save Haiti is to put it under UN control,” noted a recent Globe and Mail headline. Robert Rotberg, founding director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict, demonstrates a scarcity of imagination and knowledge in making his colonialist appeal. Highlighting an openly colonial streak in Canadian politics, prominent voices
The U.S. Coast Guard deployed a cutter to Haiti on Wednesday, as U.S. government agencies scrambled to deal with a deepening crisis that has prompted the Caribbean nation’s prime minister to appeal for foreign troops to help restore security.