26741: Boswell: (reply) Re: 26721: Morse (more comments) re: Wharram (commentary) Undermining Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Richard A. Boswell <boswellr@uchastings.edu>

Is there not a place for a more even-handed criticism?  While excuses can or 
should be made for corruption under the Aristide government, I do not think 
that this paints the entire picture.  Similarly, the fact that there was 
corruption does not justify a coup.  Nor does corruption and bungling that 
might have given provided fuel to the effort to illegally remove the Aristide 
government, or the gross human rights violations that are occurring at this 
very moment.

I will also freely criticize the Castro government for its violations of human 
rights and acknowledge that freedom of speech is severely limited.  But this 
does not mean that Castro has not done some very positive things in Cuba.

While it is very easy to try to paint things without using the full range of 
colors in the spectrum, to do so only brings out the defects in the image 
presented.  .

I do not mean to convey the impression that there are not those situations 
where one can say that something is flat out bad/wrong.  e.g. Castro's 
execution of a drug trafficker some years ago, or torture in the prisons or 
torture carried out by the U.S. government, and a host of wrongs that are 
carried out daily in other places including Haiti.

I have a hard time believing the mathematical calculation presented by 
Oloffsonram below.  Truth can hardly be presented in such simple terms.  To do 
so denigrates the suffering of those whose lives which have been snuffed out by 
the "opposition."  And to say that someone deserves the suffering that they 
experience when it includes violence and killing is in mind wrong.