U.S. Airlines Prohibited From Flying To Port-au-Prince, Haiti

The FAA announced it has prohibited all U.S. airlines from flying to Port-au-Prince, Haiti for at least 30 days. The action comes after three airliners were struck by bullets – two on departure, and a third on landing approach earlier this week. The ban limits humanitarian aid from reaching the country, which is widely savaged by gang-related political violence.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/un-helicopter-three-airliners-targeted-by-gang-related-political-gunfire

What a deplorable situation. The FAA made the right call. What is needed in Haiti is a political willingness to send in armed and funded forces to clean house, establish detainment centres and remove the gang problems. 30 days is a start, let’s see how long it really takes.

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” -H. L. Mencken

“Adding guns to a violence problem never helps.” -Aviatrexx

Turning swords into ploughshares is a grand idea… Too bad it hasn’t caught on. A quick glance around the planet would indicate that we’re moving in a different direction.

Haiti has sucked up huge reserves of money and good will over the years with no measurable improvement for its citizens. The legacy of Papa Doc, and very likely his predecessors, lives on. Maybe the best take-home message is that once corruption becomes the norm, rooting it out is nearly impossible.

The European Jews who survived the Holocaust (and this list includes my parents, aunts and uncles) would disagree.

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Joel 3:10

“Hammer your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Train even your weaklings to be warriors.”

As Solomon also pointed out, there is a time for war, and a time for peace.

If we spent more than a round-off error of the Defense Dept. budget on diplomacy, we might see different results.

My grandparents learned the same lessons as your family.

How does not countering anarchists provide peace?

Bizarre.

Needs a strong peacekeeping force that is ready to fight and to set up a proper government.
As the US did in Japan in 1945.
I nominate Canada for Haiti.

Unfortunately, with Haiti the only realistic “solution” would be a dictatorial takeover by some massive external force prepared to both support and exercise absolute control over its ~12 million population indefinitely. The USA has managed to avoid getting involved in any such, and I pray that continues.

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God bless you and your family. I am the first generation of my family born in America (thank you Lord). Most of my extended family were murdered decades before I was born and went up the chimneys at Auschwitz.

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I nominate Canada for a peace-keeping exercise, occupation as the US did in Japan in 1945, turned society around from war-mongering to peaceful and productive.
Canada keeps blathering about contribution to peace keeping but has done little recently, there are many Haitians in Canada.

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