The premise of this is simple. Obama wants to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan as cleanly as possible, it's unlikely - hopefully - that the US will enter into a major conflict again during his tenure.
If Obama wants to wrest opinion in favour of the US and its foreign policies then I would suggest that they set up a couple of task forces on either side of the world to deal with any potential humanitarian crises. Haiti is comparatively lucky being so close to the US coast, but nonetheless, with so much manpower and logistics consumed in their current conflicts, the resources are just not there to expedite the rescue effort.
The US can use these task forces on a dual mandate of rescue efforts as well as regional stability. Rather than focusing on the regime change aspect and then getting bogged down in impossible democratic agendas, they could have for example, toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan and then left it to the tribal elders to sort things out.
It seems to me, that recently the level and scale of catastrophes in the world is increasing in scale and severity. I am well aware that the UN are supposed to provide the relief effort and logistics to combat disasters, but in reality, not much happens without the support of the US military.
Time for change.
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