re: #5 Charles

It’s all about the money. Baby Doc stole billions from Haiti, and what are the odds that some of that money made it into the bank accounts of US politicians?

That’s very possible but I suspect there’s also some ideological rationalization mixed in there too. The libertarian extremists see this as a thumb in the eye of New World Order organizations like Amnesty International and the UN. They probably also see strongman dictators as a useful counterweight to American imperialism.