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[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Amywile@aol.com


So sad to see friends of Haiti calling on the international community for aid
and succor, especially when an occupation is ALREADY under way. The
assumption that the US government as presently constituted could possibly be in any way
a good friend to the Haitian people is, to me, preposterous. Of course, there
are some well-meaning people among the international communities and even
among the Friends of Haiti.

But it does seem wrong-minded to call on those who out-and-out supported the
Guy Phillipe/Jodel Chamblain/Jean Tatoune coup d'etat in Haiti to   "redouble"
their efforts at "peacebuilding." The fraternizing of the newly installed
prime minister with the Cannibal Army only serves to underline the essential
contradiction in such thinking. Just because Guy Philippe smiles and does what the
US wants him to doesn't make him peace-loving, at least, not the kind of
peace-loving we all wish for for Haiti.

I believe we can safely say that the US will be satisfied with a particular
kind of peace in Haiti, but that this may be a peace that can ONLY be achieved
 at the end of the barrel of a gun.

Terrible to have French (and American) troops walking around the streets of
Haiti during this particular bicentennial year.

Amy Wilentz