24004: Docteed (reply to Kathleen)

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Docteed@aol.com 

 
Kathleen certainly got that right. Someone needs to do some homework by 
researching old Haitian documentation of that era. During my time spent in
Haiti, 
the children and grandchildren of the people who withstood the American 
occupation 1915-1934 still recounted it with rancor and resentment--and they 
had
only 
heard and read about it. One woman whipped out a saved newspaper editorial 
from a few years earlier reiterating the sentiments still felt and revived as a

result of the 1990s Marines occupation. Benevolence? Please! For what? More 
manipulation? More exploitation? We Americans really need to get over ourselves

as the saviours of the world because it seems to me we are screwing it up 
royally with all this self-serving "benevolence."