How can the US leave this mess in the UN’s hands. Hah! Attempts to bring democracy to something like Haiti. Where is the Neocon hubris going to take us next? Ridiculous. And now to foist its problems on the UN like this. Really!
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, June 1 - United States commanders began turning over this anarchic, flood-ravaged, starving nation 500 miles from Florida to a handful of United Nations troops on Tuesday.
The 3,600-member American-led military force brought a measure of stability to Haiti after the first Marines landed Feb. 29, the day President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced from power under rebel attack and American pressure.
Despite its best efforts during the past three months, it leaves behind a mess. The United Nations mission is to help make Haiti a functioning democracy capable of holding national elections sometime next year. That task may take longer than the mission’s six-month mandate.
Sounds like standard US foreign policy at the moment, start something, fuck it up, then hand over the shit to someone else to attempt to clean up. So whats new.
Blueface, if true, then it is a crying shame that they havent been smart enough to learn anything from it. You guys are making even bigger fuckups than the ones that went before.
TM, considering the advances generally, both in arms, munitions, vehicles of warfare etc it is a little difficult to do a direct coparison of the Brits in India and the US in Iraq, Leaving anything else aside, the sheer difference in size makes any comparison inappropriate.
Haiti already had an elected leader and The US sponsered a coup… As usual double standards by the US and they want their own puppet in, thus, they don’t support democracy unless it suits them… snakes and shysters the lot of them
