Haiti: America's Moral Test
February 25, 2010 -- Will the United States under President Barack Obama allow one million humans in Haiti-- one tenth of the population in that country-- to perish from disease, starvation and chaos as the rainy season emerges? The answer, according to the actions of U.S. President Barack Obama is: "Yes." For that too, he should be impeached.
It is in the best interest of our country, our citizens, our economy, and our conscience, to assist Haiti. The steps must be taken now to relieve the ailments of a country that has been brought to its knees by imperial globalization and free trade policies. The rebuilding of Haiti by Haitians will take 25 years, but that does not mean that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cannot engage in immediate, emergency actions to relocate approximately one million people from Port-au-Prince. This is a near term solution and necessary to save human life.
The United States and Haiti have a common anti-imperial, pro-republican tradition. We can use this opportunity, to avert a preventable mass slaughter of humans, to regain our stance as an anti-imperial force in the world, and reassert our leadership, and Constitutional imperative, to promote scientific progress and the physical and mental development of the human species as a whole. Let us envision a world of sovereign nations, with the capability to provide for their populations, and make that outlook, a reality.
The decisive, emergency steps that must be taken by any true leader in the U.S. are:
- The U.S. should enter into a treaty agreement with a sovereign Haiti to assist in the relocation of the about one million individuals from Port-au-Prince, to locations inland, on higher ground, to temporary living quarters constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers.
- Free trade and globalization have destroyed even the little self-sufficiency that Haiti once maintained. For this reason the basics of survival must be provided for the citizens there, including food, water, housing, and sanitation. Skilled workers in the Army Corps of Engineers will be youth from inside of the U.S. today, and will form the basis for the Civilian Conservation Corps and domestic emergency response teams of tomorrow.
- The future of sovereignty in the world depends on bilateral treaty agreements among nations, for long-term development, harkening back to the principle behind the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia: the Benefit of the other. This means that once President Barack Obama leaves office, then the U.S. should enter into agreements with Russia, China and India in particular, and the nations of Asia more broadly. In this way we can consolidate the broader, absolutely critical progress begun with our policies toward Haiti.