Ja: Blame the rest of the world for Haiti

A Monday morning quarterback looks at the Haiti crisis and behold its inevitability.

But it need not have come to this had there been clear and definitive declarations by those who have the muscle to make their voices really count - the United States, Canada, the European Union - that there will be no rewards for violence and undemocratic actions to achieve political ends.

They at times, mostly late in the day, admonished against violence as a political tool. But there was always a sense that these statements were delivered in a language full of double-speak that left the impression that the remarks also contained something of a nod and a wink. It was a policy based on personality rather than what is right and what is moral.