Hey, who's up for a(nother) military intervention in Haiti?

Biden administration officials want someone to militarily intervene in Haiti and restore stability to that most beleaguered of countries — but they don’t want the U.S. military involved, a contradiction that raises the question of just how Biden and his foreign-policy team define “international leadership.” It is hard to believe that Americans would embrace another military deployment in the name of nation-building, but Americans also don’t want to see further waves of Haitian migrants and refugees ending up on their shores. And once again, the foreign-policy wonks who embrace the overhyped “smart power” philosophy find themselves stuck for solutions when faced with a truly complicated, seemingly intractable foreign crisis. …

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I know this is going to shock you, but it turns out that no other governments want to send in troops as peacekeepers into Haiti, either.

This is another attempt to use the “leading from behind” philosophy that the Obama administration talked up back in 2011, with Libya being the example at the time. Unsurprisingly, when a U.S. president or administration says to the nation’s allies, “Hey, you guys should go deploy your forces over there and take on that extraordinary difficult mission, while we keep our guys over here out of harm’s way,” a lot of the nation’s allies respond, “You first.”

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