>>If we truly wanted to fix Haiti, the only realistic way for America to do that, is make them the 52d State
Quite the imperialist, aren't you now?...
For some reason, Jacob, like many other left-wing pacifists, lays great stress on purity of intent and disinterestedness going into an affair. Annexing Haiti would be moral because we have no conceivable national interest to do so, and it would cost us billions. But because it would be totally disinterested on our part, Jacob can see that it would be likely to benefit the Haitians and would forgive mistakes made along the way.
Because Iraq did not have such purity of motives, he cannot admit that a) most Iraqis wanted the regime change, b) most are better off already, and their conditions are improving, c) most want us to stay to long enough to put down the insurgents and establish a working government, then go.
That is why the soi-disant champions of the oppressed ignore the polls coming out of Iraq, except for those anti-American sentiments they can pick out of them. |
