13886: Dorce - Re: 13769: Simidor: Re: Jean Du Tuyau (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: LAKAT47@aol.com

In a message dated 11/23/02 6:18:47 AM Pacific Standard Time, Daniel Simidor
<karioka9@mail.arczip.com>writes:

<< Common sense says, Mr. du Tuyau, that when something is broken
 beyond repair, it is better to discard it than to keep it in a
 corner and pretend it is not broken. >>
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Is that how you would handle marital problems?  When things go bad, throw it
away?  If it's broke, fix it!  It may take more effort but isn't your country
worth the trouble (hopefully your marriage is worth it too!)?  Maybe a broken
pencil you would want to discard, or a broken cigarette lighter.  But
anything of value that you have, you want to exhaust all avenues, trying to
fix it before deciding to throw it out with the garbage.

Breaking things and discarding them is part of Haiti's illness.  How bout
trying to make things better within the government that was voted in?
Demonstrate.....YES!  Make demands of your government...YES!  But give up
this self destructive behavior of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Democracy is a process.  Let it work.  It will take more than one or two
terms (maybe 10 terms!) to get comfortable with it so that it works well for
most citizens.  Let Aristide finish his term (even if it isn't very pretty to
look at) and let him hand over the mantle to the next (unfortunate)
president.  And let him/her do the same.  If Haitians put as much effort into
making the welfare of Haiti a priority as they do trying to destroy one man,
that place would be the Pearl of the Antilles again.

Kathy Dorce~