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History won't be kind to Ruto if he sends Kenya's police to Haiti

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Leader of the G9 gang coalition Jimmy Cherizier, aka Barbecue talks to reporters near the perimeter wall that encloses Terminal Varreux, the port owned by the Mevs family, in Port-au-Prince. [AP Photo]

Balancing competing national interests is the only concern in the international arena. There is simply nothing more, and nothing less.

Powerful nations will, of course, pedal potpourris of moralism, and wear sentimental humanitarian masks, and cloaks of piety in these forums. But all that is deception. Their emotional pleas are no more than high-sounding hot air. They have very little significance outside the coordinates of self-interest. That is why Kenya must think very carefully before sending 1,000 police officers to dance with death in Haiti. What is in it for us?

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