I am not at all familiar with the specifics of the situation in Haiti, but if I try to transfer what you are saying to either of two familiar contexts I see some trouble.
a) Palestinians, when let to choose the government that promises the most social support, elected Hamas. One thing you can say about Hamas is that it isn't a good government for a people that ever hopes to reach agreement with the state of Israel to have.
b) First Nations people in Canada, when let to decide what their lives should look like under a policy that supports the reserves system, make some decisions which I wouldn't wish upon my enemies.
Again, I don't know much about the history of international involvement in Haiti, but I treat with much skepticism the libertarian position that any involvement in Haiti, aside from the purely humanitarian, is necessarily, a priori, undesirable.
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Date: 2010-01-16 11:13 pm (UTC)a) Palestinians, when let to choose the government that promises the most social support, elected Hamas. One thing you can say about Hamas is that it isn't a good government for a people that ever hopes to reach agreement with the state of Israel to have.
b) First Nations people in Canada, when let to decide what their lives should look like under a policy that supports the reserves system, make some decisions which I wouldn't wish upon my enemies.
Again, I don't know much about the history of international involvement in Haiti, but I treat with much skepticism the libertarian position that any involvement in Haiti, aside from the purely humanitarian, is necessarily, a priori, undesirable.