Throwing thousands more soldiers at Haiti will not solve this crisis

In a recent letter to Chad’s national legislature, Chadian President Mahamat Deby announced that his country will be deploying two battalions to Haiti as part of the United Nations’ new Gang Suppression Force (GSF). Totaling 1,500 troops, the deployments are scheduled to leave this week for Haiti, where they’ll remain for at least one year, working with multilateral partners in an effort to suppress the violence that has come to define life in Haiti today.Although the GSF represents the most for...