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"Change Haiti can believe in" by Paul Farmer and Brian Concannon | January 25, 2009
THE INAUGURATION of a US president committed to reversing "the failed policies of the past" provoked sighs of relief around the world. Few were more relieved than the citizens of Haiti, because few have suffered so much from failed US policies.
I'm not so sure they have "failed." It is the RESULT OUR GOVERNMENT WANTED!
But Haitians are still waiting to see whether the "past" that is to be reversed extends beyond the illegal and destructive policies of the last eight years to include over two centuries of US policies that have failed both our oldest neighbor and our highest ideals.
I'm kind of sick of the self-aggrandizing self-acclamation of how great we are, aren't you, Amurka?
Our treatment of Haiti was bad enough during the Bush administration. We imposed a development assistance embargo in 2001, because we did not like the elected government's economic policies. The embargo stopped urgently needed government programs - a Partners In Health study found that cancelling water projects in just one city had a devastating impact on health in the area. In 2004, US officials forced Haiti President Jean-Bertrand Aristide aboard a clandestine flight to Africa and placed a Bush supporter from Florida at the head of Haiti's government. Thousands were killed in the ensuing political violence. Years of hard-won progress toward democracy were erased overnight.
But our mistreatment of Haiti started earlier, as soon as Haiti became independent in 1804, when we refused to even recognize the new republic run by freed slaves.
And that is a STAIN upon AmeriKa, folks!!
Then again, EMPIRES NEVER FORGET and NEVER FORGIVE -- thus the UPPITY-HAITIANS get treated WORSE than DIRT for OVER 200 YEARS!
We invaded Haiti in 1915, to ensure repayment of a debt to Citibank. We propped up ruthless dictators in the name of fighting communism. In the 1980s, we decimated Haiti's agricultural base by forcing subsidized US rice on Haitian markets.
How LITTLE TIMES have CHANGED, huh?
These policies failed Haitians terribly.
As they were MEANT TO!!!
They cost thousands of lives lost in political violence. Millions more suffered because Haiti's governments could not or would not provide clean water and basic healthcare.
Our thugs were too busy looting the public treasury for that!
The policies have also failed the United States, by requiring us to mount expensive military interventions, respond to repeated waves of refugees, and deal with the drugs that transit easily through an unstable Haiti on their way from South America.
Those aren't considered failures; just what the government wanted.
Haitians are hoping that America will reverse the failed policies of the past. Their hopes are grounded not just in President Obama's promise, but in their own country's brief, but successful, experiment with democracy from 1994 to 2004, and in America's important contributions to that success....
Well, he's gonna BREAK ANOTHER PROMISE!!
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These successes were due, in part, to US government investments.
Oh, this is turning disgusting and offensive.
US troops intervened to restore the constitutional government in 1994. USAID helped craft Haiti's successful application for financing from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. US judges, prosecutors, and police officers trained their Haitian counterparts, and we helped equip Haitian courts with basic legal resources and materials.
The rewriting and revision of history is something else, isn't it?
BOTH TIMES the U.S. SUPPORTED the COUPS of Aristide!!!
We now have a historic opportunity to work with Haiti's current constitutional government to build a stronger, more prosperous Haiti.
I never like seeing that terminology coming from a globalist.
Seizing this opportunity will require restraint, and faith in democracy: We will need to allow elected Haitian leaders to make their own policy decisions, even if we would have decided otherwise.
There is another term I don't like.
We will also need to invest in democracy.
This really is getting rank and offensive, folks.
Three days' spending in Iraq or two weeks' interest on the bank bailout could fund Haiti's entire government for a year.
Then why is "the Haiti government is still obligated to use what little money it has to pay off the debt to international financial institutions.... nearly $1 million per week?"
Prudent, depoliticized investments in Haiti's democracy will yield dividends of prosperity and stability to Haiti, and will save US taxpayer dollars in the long run by reducing the flow of refugees and drugs to our shores. Perhaps most important, by helping rebuild a better Haiti, we will show the world how, in President Obama's words, "we are ready to lead once more."
Then WIPE OUT THEIR DEBT!!!
Yeah, a couple of globalist s***s who misrepresent what the U.S. has done down there.
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And did you notice that the BLACK PEOPLE from our OWN HEMISPHERE garner LESS ATTENTION than AFRICANS?!!!!
What's up with that, racist Zionist MSM?
