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2008-09-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Fred 2008-09-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Some Pundits are complaining about how the US can care about GEORGIA while ignoring the alleged mess it created, and left unresolved, in nearby HAITI [ARISTIDE Crisis and after], and to a lesser extent CUBA + MEXICO [drug chaos]???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-09-05 01:13|| 2008-09-05 01:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Georgia was invaded by an overwhelming if crude Russian army and want to address the problem themselves. The others are self-inflicted festering wounds with not much effort of the parties involved to deal with the problem.

The "pundits" can pound sand.

Posted by tipover 2008-09-05 02:34|| 2008-09-05 02:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Why is it that the Haitians, Mexicans and Cubans don't get to share any responsibility for their own plight in your comment, Mendiola?

Cuba has had 40 years to straighten up their act but they choose to be poor "victims". And as for Mexico, once the people decide they have had a belly full of the drugs trade, it will end, but not before.

Posted by Chaith Panda7870 2008-09-05 02:40|| 2008-09-05 02:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Mother nature flushes the toilet.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-05 09:59|| 2008-09-05 09:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Something's wrong with the link; it goes to a BBC article on an Afghan drug lord.

Posted by mom ">mom 2008-09-05 10:07|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-09-05 10:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Found the article by going to BBC Americas.

Besoeker, your comment is inappropriate. You do not refer to human beings as waste. Period.

Posted by mom ">mom 2008-09-05 10:11|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-09-05 10:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Haiti - wasn't that Bill Clinton's military intervention?

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-09-05 11:10|| 2008-09-05 11:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Mom, go watch Olby's comments after the 9-11 video. You might change your mind.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-09-05 11:56|| 2008-09-05 11:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Haiti has been a running sore in the Caribbean since it became an independent nation in 1810. The US sent Marines into Haiti at least four times in the 20th Century, and has lavished tens of billions of dollars on the nation, with nothing to show for it. Let the NGOs pour their money down the rathole that's Haiti.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-09-05 14:47|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-09-05 14:47|| Front Page Top

#10 The history of Haiti is one of reinforcing every possible bad decision and choice that can be made : they slaughtered or ran-off all the whites, mixed race, and educated free blacks during their revolution; they then turned inward on themselves and began killing all of those not sufficiently revolutionary; and every time they picked a leader, they chose a strongman dictator. The only times in the history of that misbegotten country that things have been good is when the US Marine Corps was the government/military/police force there.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2008-09-05 20:36|| 2008-09-05 20:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Haiti was a French colony. qed

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-05 20:43|| 2008-09-05 20:43|| Front Page Top

#12 they even screwed up making baseballs...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-05 20:43|| 2008-09-05 20:43|| Front Page Top

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