President Joe Biden’s sympathetic mention of the crisis in Haiti at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday was unexpected, and welcome. But the question that Haitians and those who love Haiti are asking after painfully watching the country’s descent into anarchy is, “Now what?”
Biden did his duty — to an extent: “We continue to stand with our neighbor in Haiti as it faces political-fueled gang violence and an enormous human crisis,” he said. “And we call on the world to do the same.”
But the world, represented in that expansive U.N. hall full of leaders, likely did what it’s been doing for years under the weight of so-called “Haiti fatigue:” folded its arms as if to say, “You first, USA. Haiti is a mess.”
