12014: Is the IRI getting the bang for its bucks in Haiti? (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: JJEANPIERRE1@aol.com

In post a1985 Stanley Lucas (IRI) wrote: "Several Haitian groups in the
tri-state area have teamed up to stage a major demonstration against de facto
President Jean Bertrand Aristide..."
Is it not as clear as the water from a good Haitian coconut that the
International Republican Institute (IRI) is wasting its money on its
activities on/in Haiti?  Those "several Haitian groups" ended up gathering
less than 150 folks in front of the United Nations last Friday. By the way,
could not they do better than a megaphone?  Time after time the IRI
assembles some of our professional politicians to form what it takes the
sadistic pleasure of calling "an honest opposition in Haiti."   And the
result is always the same: the establishment of a welfare state for lazy
Haitian intellectuals "too proud to work and not disposed to go into
commerce" (Frederick Douglas).
Would it not be better to spend your bucks educating Haitian children giving
a chance to the future of Haiti?
jean jean-pierre