20189: Nealy: RE: 20126: Esser: Re: 20115: Nealy: RE: 20064 (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: David Nealy <dlnealy@msn.com>

M. Esser,

If you can back up the "on a plane dead or alive" quote, that would be
sensational, at least.

My guess (that's all it is) is that the objective of the US team was to
avoid a rebel takeover with Aristide killed, avoid a commitment to save his
regime by military action by the US, avoid massive bloodshed via an attack
by the rebels on PAP. If so, they succeeded in that short term goal, didn't
they?

They may have had other motives and one may have been to see someone remove
Aristide and then start over with nation-building, hopefully with someone
the "International Community" could work with better.  That may have been
the long term hope, and the signals to the opposition that they would be
allowed to stall indefinitely is consistent with that.  However, to take it
further and say that they kidnapped Aristide, in any literal sense, is to
stretch things, it seems to me, particularly in view of Steele Foundation's
guards going with him to Africa. (Aristide has not yet claimed that those
security guards betrayed him or left him unprotected. Perhaps that is next.)

David

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