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| Baffling us all, US rejects Haiti ’regime change’ |
| 2004-02-13 |
| EFL and WTF US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s time in power had been disappointing, but "regime change" was not the way forward. Mr Powell will discuss sending foreign police to Haiti in talks with Canada and Caribbean countries on Friday. Mr Powell said the US was not happy with Mr Aristide’s behaviour since US forces restored him to power following a coup a decade ago. But, he said |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #10 Regime change? What the hell difference would it make? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-2-13 10:18:52 PM |
| #9 What the CIA website for Haiti should have had this for its listing: Haiti: Mostly Useless. (Hehe sorry for the rip from Doug Adams). |
| Posted by: Valentine 2004-2-13 8:40:17 PM |
| #8 Last year my son made a report in school on Haiti, which was the country selected for him. We first went to the CIA website with the summary on Haiti. Big depression set it. Maybe more hope of improvement than Chechnia, but I cannot supply you any backup to that statement. *sigh* |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-2-13 5:24:06 PM |
| #7 Mr. Davis, seriously, do you think that is why Powell is talking to Canada. Quebec French and Hatian French are probably quite dissimular, but may be close enough to allow French-Canadian troops/police to patrol in a simular fashion to the British in Northern Ireland. I would hate doing crowd control in a country where communication with the local population was through sign-language only. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-2-13 5:19:49 PM |
| #6 Haiti was a French colony, so they will fix it, like they did with the Ivory Coast, non? |
| Posted by: Mr. Davis 2004-2-13 5:01:20 PM |
| #5 SH - I wasn't criticizing your headline, heh, just making fun of the article (which I read and found to be possibly pregnant with their idea of subtle double-entendre...) and the Boob. Aristide was elected, and Haiti is one of the cornerstones of the Clintonian Presidency's Incredible Success Story - Kosovo being the other, I think. Or was it the capture and rehabilitation of OBL? So many successes, I get confused. Help me out, here, guys... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-2-13 2:54:10 PM |
| #4 SH, it's simple. Aristide is bad, but who do you replace him with? From what I read today, we're talking about providing transport for some cops. Fine, but that's as far as it should go. We're busy right now and there really is no good solution that I can think of to this problem. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-2-13 2:21:16 PM |
| #3 .com, the "baffling us all" part is mine. I don't understand why we would want Aristide in power, or how his elections could be thought to be more legitimate than Georgia's. Maybe we are honoring some kind of three-strike principle. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-2-13 2:14:54 PM |
| #2 Well, he couldn't very well just come out and admit that nobody really gives a shit who runs Haiti, could he? But after all, it IS Haiti. Maybe we could get the Dominicans to help out? |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-2-13 2:13:23 PM |
| #1 SH - Perhaps this should be titled, "Beeb Attempt at Snarky Double-Entendres Falls Flat On Its Ass" - whaddya think? Boob, pfeh. Aristide, pfeh. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-2-13 1:59:40 PM |