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Sunday, January 29, 2006
How the Republicans Have Destroyed Haiti -- Again! Mixed U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos By WALT BOGDANICH and JENNY NORDBERG As Haiti prepares to pick an elected president, questions linger about the effect of U.S. foreign policy on the chaos there. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/international/americas/29haiti.html?th&emc=th Mr. Maguire, the Haiti expert, is skeptical. "I don't see that the U.S. is exporting democracy," he said. "I think it's more exporting a kind of fear, that if we don't do the things the way the U.S. and powerful interests in our country want us to do them, then perhaps we'll be as expendable as Mr. Aristide was." ......................... The lengthy NY Times report on Haiti from which I have extracted a nearly final paragraph details how the U.S. has once again betrayed democracy in this, the poorest and most disrupted nation in the Western hemisphere. Those of us who lived through the Cold War remember all too well how we supported the brutal (but anti-Communist) Duvaliers' dictatorial rule there -- Papa Doc and Baby Doc: http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/duvalier.html Of late the Bush administration withheld promised economic support for the desperate economy there, meddled in the politics through bringing back to power brutal killers, removed Haiti's elected president to South Africa with the threat of imminent death to him and his family, now leaving this poor nation in economic and political chaos with daily killings and worse as outcome. Needless to say the rest of Latin America is increasingly fed up with our interventions which have touched nearly all of the nations south of our borders. Shame! -- "A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy) -- Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeaceEfforts http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/ http://www.bloggernews.net Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Ed Kent at 8:24 AM |
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1 Comments:
Who is this Hatiti expert? And what are his qualifications to make him an expert?
Now for the NY Times article. What is this suposed imminent death? Is it assasination? Because if it is then we have bigger problems than Haiti, because official US policy is no assasination. Granted I think it would be foolish to say that the US has not been involved in assasinations in the past in one way or another. But now? What about Sudam Hussein, that would have been a lot easier.
And how do we know that the rest of Latin America is fed up. Are there any polls to prove it? Are there any reports of any kind? Or, is all this just an opinon given as fact as happens so much these day with the NY Times.
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