After 11 days, the rebellion in Haiti is finally arriving in the US media. Seems that France might send in troops. The USA seems to be intent on not stating its position, which is probably just as well, given that the USA is primarily responsible for the mess that the country is in. After destroying the vestiges of an economy with the embargo, and putting a disliked man back in office with military force in 1994, it seems that the best position for the US to take would be to admit that we don't know what's best for the country. Sort of the least of the available evils that we can commit.
Meanwhile, Boston.com paints the leader of the rebellion as a drunken fool who is not really sure how he rose to this position. It really doesn't seem like there's any good solution to the problem.
One of the problems with having a different president every 4 to 8 years is that policies are constantly changing. What one presidential administration does, isn't necessarily the belief of the next. That's part of the problem with the perception the rest of the world has on the US. One administration makes a decision and the next administration is left picking up the pieces. Often times, the decisions made need no approval from Congress. So, the only opinion that matters is that of the president and his closest cronnies in deciding what is the best decision to make in certain situations.
Posted by: Troy on February 17, 2004 11:12 AMIncidentally, the word for "down with" is not abad, as this article reports, in fact I don't really think that is a creole word at all. (I checked this with my mom, who lived there for 24 years) The word they were most likely going for was "anba"
> One of the problems with having a different president every 4 to 8 years is that policies
> are constantly changing.
That is only a problem if the president is given ludicrous amounts of power disempowering the usual parlamentaric approach to democracy. Which is certainly the case in the US.