20081: (Chamberlain) re: 20062: Esser/McCalla (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@compuserve.com>

> Esser wrote:

> it is strange politics to say the least to first condone violence by not
speaking out against it, and then wishing it would go away...


Yet this is just what the scores of rent-a-radical writers who've suddenly
discovered Haiti are doing.

Condoning the violence, corruption and incompetence of Aristide's rule by
carefully avoiding anything but the most sanitised mention of such
"problems" and being awfully glad the spectacle of his overthrow has
conveniently hidden it all from view.

Haitians of all classes have been thoroughly abused and impoverished by the
outgoing regime.  What's to come might (or might not) be worse, but it's
sad to see so many people fooled by Aristide's ringing calls for
"democracy" and "peace" when he showed such little interest in applying
these ideals when he was in power.

He clearly isn't the instrument Haiti needs to tackle the roots of its
acute national crisis, any more that foreign occupation is.


        Greg Chamberlain