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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (183132)2/20/2004 12:09:35 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1576696
 
John,

re: How is Haiti or any country going to find their way if we keep interceding and putting the pieces back together. Usually, we do it wrong anyway and the thing blows up again a few more years down the road.

That's the good, conservative (non-nation building) argument. The usual liberal argument would be humanitarian and political; we should go in because we are probably about to see a slaughter of epic proportions, and the end of democracy (such as it is) in what's been called the poorest country in our hemisphere. About 800 miles from Miami.

I didn't realize that this issue had a liberal or conservative definition. Clinton backed Aristedes and look at how he turned out. When you are not from the country, its very difficult to discern who is honest and dedicated and who is corrupt.

I've been on the island (though not in Haiti) and the poverty is devastating. Real starvation.

I would have no problem sending food and making sure it got distributed correctly. After all, its the people who get screwed in these scenarios.

One thing for sure, there is no oil and there are no terrorists in Haiti. Only a population of half starved black people and a failing democracy that we installed.

We already knew why Bush wasn't saying anything about Haiti; you didn't have to explain it to us. <g>

ted
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