{"id":499251,"date":"2010-04-01T05:37:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T09:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11774"},"modified":"2010-04-01T05:37:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T09:37:39","slug":"should-the-u-s-annex-haiti-and-make-bill-clinton-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/499251","title":{"rendered":"Should the U.S. Annex Haiti? And Make Bill Clinton Governor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interesting <a  href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/blogs\/fpcomment\/archive\/2010\/03\/30\/how-best-to-help-haiti.aspx\">discussion<\/a> of innovative ways to deal with Haiti&#8217;s long-term problems. \u00a0Haiti is very close to a failed state. So it&#8217;s time to think big. Here are four out of the box choices: \u00a01) A New Haitian Constitution; 2) UN Trusteeship; 3) U.S. Protectorate; 4) U.S. annexation and status as a territory. \u00a0Read the whole article. I actually think that in a free and fair election, options 3 and 4 might prevail. \u00a0And I think option 4 might achieve the best results long term for Haiti. \u00a0But getting the U.S. Congress to agree, that&#8217;s another matter. In any event, I assume instead we&#8217;ll go with option 5): an almost-failed state propped up by tons of outside aid with no long term prospects of stability or growth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/EWLH1mhW8m4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku Interesting discussion of innovative ways to deal with Haiti&#8217;s long-term problems. \u00a0Haiti is very close to a failed state. So it&#8217;s time to think big. Here are four out of the box choices: \u00a01) A New Haitian Constitution; 2) UN Trusteeship; 3) U.S. Protectorate; 4) U.S. annexation and status as a territory. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}