OPINION
Haiti is cursed.
The recently inaugurated second Trump administration rightly established a three-pronged test for U.S. foreign policy going forward: Does an action make America safer, stronger and more prosperous?
The ongoing crisis in Haiti is certainly a net negative on all three counts.
At this early junction for making America’s golden age, we are called to dream big.
Could Haiti’s own contribution to these aims be as a "safe third country" for repatriation of certain deportees?
Australia pioneered the system with the Island of Tonga — denying the illegal alien’s ambition to remain on Australian soil but complying with all other obligations.
The Republic of Türkiye (Turkey) has refined the practice, administering on behalf of the European Union a string of refugee camps larger than most countries (4.5 million souls, with another 2 million inside their "security corridor" in Syria).
Naturally, Both Tonga and Türkiye charge for this service to global peace and security.
What needs to happen for this scenario to come to pass?
The pacification of Haitian territory is a necessary precondition, given the widely recognized "failed state" designation currently in place.
Currently a hotbed for organized crime engaged in trafficking small arms, narcotics and "restavek" children (viewers of "The Sound of Freedom" (Angel Studios) will shudder in remembrance) — the gangs of Haiti are steadily progressing toward warlordism, assisted by every nefarious actor on the global stage: International socialism from Havana and Caracas, fundamentalist Shi’a Islamism, seeking a base of operations in our hemisphere, drug cartels, and proper geopolitical enemies who spy a chance to light a fire in America’s backyard to tie up Washington’s limited resources.
U N Security Council resolution 2669 established a Kenyan-led "multinational security assistance force" empowered to receive assistance from all willing states — importantly, not affiliated to the UN itself as "blue-helmets," but a standalone self-organizing brigade of up to 2000 troops to be sent to Haiti to quell the violence.
Two years on, not even half of that number has materialized.
It's obviously out of the question for the U.S. military to put boots on the ground, but any organized military-police organization could conceivably take the opportunity to contribute to international peace and security.
The opening left for non-UN member states hoping for eventual recognition of their efforts in a non-UN international force should grab the opportunity with both hands.
Whether it's the Kosovars, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, or even Somaliland, there is nothing else they could do to help America this much.
Considering Beijing’s increasing presence on Cuban soil, the Republic of China (Taiwan) should definitely take the win available to them here in the form of helping the United States with one of its own security priorities, given how much America is putting on the line for them.
In the longer term, the debate as to what must be done about Haiti has settled on the "Japanese Emperor" figure — appealing to General MacArthur’s respect for Japan’s way of doing things after the war.
This is a mistaken view: Haiti’s "Japanese Emperor" is what got it in this mess in the first place — quite a contrast with post-Meiji Japan.
The race-obsessed fruit of Toussaint L’Ouverture’s 1804 revolution has lamentably contaminated even America’s intellectual class, to great detriment on national cohesion.
Black supremacy cannot be the basis of a nation-state, any more than White supremacy can – the world’s democracies made sure of that during World War II.
Haitian Créole and voodooism are also a major limitation for future development of a productive economy integrated with other French-speaking economies in Europe and Africa.
It would be an easy plus (and a source of foreign exchange and commercial activity) to replicate the call-center model on Haitian soil, serving rich markets like France, Belgium, or oil-rich Senegal and Algeria.
The most important pillar of this "Japanese Emperor," at the basis of the Haitian Revolution and Haiti’s current predicament is Voodoo religion.
Every religion on earth, Christians, Muslims, Hindus and the rest, all agree that the use of spiritual capital for negative ends — witchcraft, curses, voluntary demonic possession and the like — are forbidden, and cost your soul much more than you can ever benefit.
Two hundred years and change of black magic has incurred Haiti in a debt only Repentance can defray.
It has been a while since foreign policy goals turned around saving souls, but then much about the Haitian crisis is absolutely pre-modern.
Warlordism is itself a characteristic of the process of "state-formation," which most locales the world over has long since left behind.
Witchcraft is a cause of this hellish situation and is to be seen in this light — not encouraged.
Once Haiti has been pacified, and the proper conditions for an electoral contest are back in place, a sister Republic in the Western Hemisphere will have been restored to functioning order.
It would go a long way in making the American continent greater than ever before.
If you are listening Marco Rubio, the most knowledgeable and insightful secretary of state on Western Hemisphere activities we have ever had, then work to resolve the dire situation in Haiti and benefit both our countries.
The place to start is with a competent, Trump-supporting ambassador (a job no one wants) who knows both the turf and the stakes.
His name is Felipe Cuello. He was my co-author of "Trump's World" and is ready, willing and more than able.
Theodore Roosevelt Malloch scholar-diplomat-strategist was a professor at Yale and Oxford and author of 18 books. His comprehensive tome on Trump’s foreign policy was co-authored with Felipe Cuello.
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