There is no plan to evacuate American citizens from Haiti.

 Last night, I heard a "news" snippet wherein an obviously defensive State Department spokesman told reporters that the United States had no plan to evacuate American citizens from Haiti, because American citizens have been warned for four years not to go to Haiti.  My guess is that will become more of a political problem in this country than is the political and security deterioration in Haiti that is stimulating the evacuation discussion.  The Biden Administration is, after all, the government that massively failed to successfully execute the evacuation of Afghanistan.  I have actually directed a successful evacuation, and I agree that the Biden Administration is obviously grossly incompetent, but I do not believe that glaring fact is even close to the most important part of the situation in Haiti.

Haiti, like too much of South and Central America, is in the process of being taken over by organized criminal gangs.  Democracy is failing to govern increasingly large parts of the globe for exactly the same fundamental reasons that organized and unorganized crime is becoming more important inside this country.  The specifics in each instance are sufficiently dramatic that we tend to focus on the them, rather than the trend lines.  Part of the reason that we do that is that we are afraid to think about the trend lines that are emerging and, when we do, we reject the actions necessary to deal with them.  I argue that mistake is going to get us, you and me, killed.

Haiti is happening, to varying degrees, all over the globe, including here in this country.  There is a difference in the degree of deterioration in civil order inside our cities as compared to Port-au-Prince today, but the difference is in degree, not in kind.  Were we to compare cities governed by democratic authorities with cities governed by totalitarian authorities, we would see generally more order in the latter, than in the former.  (BeiJing vs San Francisco.)  Wealthy countries in Europe and North America are able to gloss over "urban blight," and throw money at it, while, here in this country, the governing class moves out of urban areas to suburban enclaves, the most elite of which actually have walls.  There is not enough wealth and organization in poorer countries to accomplish this on a sufficiently large scale to mask the underlying problem - hence "Bar-B-Cue's" rise to power.

As Haiti goes down the drain, we increasingly worry about refugees flooding into this country and seek temporary solutions such as trying to hire Kenyan cops to restore order to the afflicted nation and arguing with each other about putting security forces on alert to stop foreigners from flooding into this country.  As our government fails to take the necessary actions that would get our citizens out of Haiti, we will see private operations organized to deal with the challenge.  These efforts will be dramatic enough to capture our attention instead of thinking about the fundamentals that made all of this happen.  Eventually, we will see sufficient order restored by one, or the other power broker, that we can turn our attention away from this problem and focus it on another, somewhere else.  

As we go forward, we will ignore the fact that we have failed to address the underlying issues.  Why am I so certain of the outcome?  Because we do it over and over again, absolutely everywhere in the world, including here inside our own country.  Just as we physically flee urban blight here in this country, we intellectually flee it everywhere in the world.  I contend that population growth is swamping humanity, intellectually as well as physically.  I contend that the only, repeat only, solution is to honestly address the living conditions of everybody in this increasingly crowded world, not because it is the right thing to do morally, but because it is the only way that the human experiment can continue.  Not to do so is to see Haiti, Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan as being the proximate steps leading to nuclear oblivion.

In the last analysis, Make America Great Again is just as narrow minded as Open Borders and "leaders" are not the problem.  You and I are, and we refuse to understand it because we are greedy cowards.  Things are a mess, that much we well understand, but we choose to carefully select what we argue about.  Pronouns, the age of the fetus, the price of gas, the number of chips in the bag, and our precious feelings being the current list, because we can get our feeble heads around them - not because they are the most dangerous problems facing us.  I continue to see that situation as being the height of stupidity.  I contend that you and I are just as stupid as the "leaders" that we elect.  They are, in fact, our report card.