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Originally Posted by MrIcky
I don't disagree with this. And I know the UN already had 7000 people there to help keep the peace (bad sign to start with, and the General of that force is Brazilian...eek). However it'd be nice if the UN ramped up, got in there, and did something right for once. This seems to me to be something the UN should be excellent at.
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I'll also put this out there. Which of the countries on
this list are best prepared to help Haiti? Besides the proximity to the US, the fact that the US has the capacity to work on both terrible terrain and in terrible circumstances by taking advantage of advanced technology and damned good training makes the US the best candidate to help Haiti. If everyone on Earth had these capacities, there might not have been this disaster in the first place. On the other hand, it might not be as democratic a world if everyone else had this sort of military. Additionally, the US represents approximately
22% of the UN's annual budget based on their dues scale. Countries with a higher capacity to pay must pay more, and the US is the largest contributer. Even if the US were not to send troops to Haiti, the US would be paying for them.