a1618: plain-talking flashback '94 (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Stuart Leiderman <leidermn@hypatia.unh.edu>

may still be a good benchmark for looking forward the next ten years:

Schulz, Donald E. and Gabriel Marcella. 1994. RECONCILING THE
IRRECONCILABLE: THE TROUBLED OUTLOOK FOR U.S. POLICY TOWARD HAITI.
<http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usassi/ssipubs/pubs94/ushaiti/ushaiti.pdf>

"...Those who wish to transform Haiti socially and economically must
think in terms of decades, rather than years, for such change will
require more than one generation to accomplish.  Furthermore, it will
take place within a political context that, to put it mildly, is not
likely to be conducive to socioeconomic development.  Under the best of
circumstances, democracy is the product of a long and difficult process.
Rarely is this course unilinear.  There will be setbacks--periods of
stagnation and reversal, as well as periods of progress.  Nor is there
anything inevitable about the result...."

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