It's like the old adage 'Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for a lifetime'
We already tried that in Haiti and it failed. It isn't about teaching a man to fish, it's about MAKING him actually fish after you taught them.
I'd offer the Haitians a choice. Either fix your own problems, or disolve your government and become a ward of the "state". I'd be all for shipping Alan Keyes down there as dictator for life to straighten that country out.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
