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#2061: Mario's Cabinet (fwd)
From:NLaleau@aol.com
Dear Mario,
I really liked your slate, and thank you for placing me on it. I will accept
until anybody else in the Cabinet disagrees with me, physically assaults me,
or otherwise hurts my feelings, and then I will resign in a dignified huff,
if I am still alive. If I am dead, will "l'enquet se poursuivre"? (?please
fix my grammar!)
As I pictured your Cabinet functioning, I imagined the range of possible
dialogues between the members -- and now that you have published parts II,
III, et seq., the plot thickens, and I wish we had been flies on the curb at
Broadway too, listening to the discussions of the Shadow Cabinet in the
1960s!!!
Ironically, perhaps, you may have inadvertently previsioned at least one part
of Haiti's dilemma: the inability of well-intentioned people to work
together. Those of us in your Cabinet would probably deal with each other as
miserably as the former "Lavalas" camp has done, if the comments that fly
back and forth on the List (despite Bob's moderating influence) are any
indication.
if the Dyas Cabinet could learn to get along and collaborate effectively here
in the comfort of our jobs and computers, without the daily life-and-death
pressures existing in Haiti, maybe then we would have earned the right to
just HINT at some directions for solving Haiti's problems. But until then,
maybe we ought to keep our mouths shut, do more introspection and
self-criticism, and less criticism of others. (If anyone can think of
someone this applies to that is not him/herself, he/she might have missed my
point, or is that an extended oxymoron?) (Please don't criticize me or I'll
tender my resignation immediately, before the investiture ceremony!)
Sincerely,
Nancy Laleau