19637: Esser: Re: 19623: goodman: Re: 19568: Esser: AFP: Aristide Didn't Resign... (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: D. Esser torx@joimail.com

Your believes aside, politics is not religion. Facts are more
important than feelings or beliefs. To call other peoples
contribution trash is fairly easy - disproving them not. So please:
if you see "trash", just make a case for the contrary. I don't
"believe" everything I read either, but I would not so easily dismiss
other peoples writings as based on communist or socialist agendas, or
right wing or fascist for that matter.

Your claim about non existent hegemonic interest of the U.S. in the
Caribbean is surprising. There is a large body of scholarly work, not
by extremists, but by very mainstream writers on the subject. A very
large number coming to the conclusion, that even before the Monroe
Doctrine, Haiti and her neighbors have been considered as very vital
to U.S. interests. If the U.S. has nothing to gain from supporting
the likes of Toto Constant et al, why was he an U.S. asset? This is
just another fact that has been written extensively about by writers
and published in the corporate media, both of which cannot be seen as
even mildly left wing extremists. If you dismiss opinions because of
perceived political agendas, you might miss out on a volume of very
substantiated information. I agree with you that Haitians want and
deserve the freedom that some parts of the world enjoy, including the
adherence to constitutional processes and the right to govern
themselves without foreign interference.

By the way: the trash you seem to refer to here, comes from the AFP.