"Haiti did make a pact with the devil. This is a well known historical fact. Unfortunately, it's not the devil depicted in the movies.

The French showed up with 500 guns and "negotiated" a payment of 21 Billion dollars in today's terms. In exchange for independence, French bankers were happy to re-enslave the country with debt. The French aren't the only bankers who profited from this arrangement, they were just the first.

"Haiti was the only country in which the ex-slaves themselves were expected to pay a foreign government for their liberty."
– Haiti: the land where children eat mud [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_an...

Since the "devil" in this pact was us, perhaps this should colour our response."

Thought that was great. Robertson's comment probably made lots of people justified in continuing to not help — and this one does just the opposite.