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No Early Exit.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Caribbean: Haiti's government has once again fallen apart, and chaos has a firmer grip on the sad little nation than its former rulers ever had. If ever there was a case for U.S.-backed nation building, this is it.
We're well aware of the odiousness of those words -- "nation building" -- to some. Yet this time the U.S. needs to make sure a respectable, honest government takes over in the Western Hemisphere's poorest, most corrupt country.
It's not as if we don't have experience there. We do. The U.S. occupied Haiti from 1914 to 1934. President Clinton sent the U.S. Marines in again in 1994, after a military coup briefly deposed President Jean Bertrand Aristide and the U.N. imposed sanctions.
Good move. Though the corrupt Aristide stayed in office until 1996, things briefly got better. Unfortunately, Clinton and the U.N. brought the Marines home from Haiti prematurely in 1997. By 2000, Aristide's Lavalas Party was back in power, causing mischief.
Sadly, the U.N. never pushed democratic reforms. So Haiti's political chaos just grew worse. Aristide and his fellow thugs felt perfectly safe once again to kill and harass the opposition, steal public funds and fix elections -- kind of an Iraq lite.
This time, the U.S. must do the job right. Haiti is much too close to ignore. Each time it suffers political upheaval, thousands of people take to the seas in ...
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- News wire article from: United Press International March 4, 2004 700+ words
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- Haiti: Marines patrol after shots fired.
- News wire article from: United Press International March 3, 2004 700+ words
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- Haiti: Marines crackdown in capital.
- News wire article from: United Press International March 17, 2004 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service McMichael, William H. July 5, 1994 700+ words
...Nations embargo against Haiti. ``We are going down...Inchon group's 2,000 Marines could join the 650 already off Haiti aboard the USS Wasp in an...will pick up the 2,000 Marines of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit out of...
- MARINES KILL 9 IN HAITI FIREFIGHT AFTER 5 RELATIVELY PEACEFUL DAYS, THE U.S....
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) September 25, 1994 700+ words
...this city on Haiti's northern...station, as the Marines tried to coax...A U.S. Marine, a Haitian...vehicles scouting Marine positions and interfering with Marine movement. Marines from that platoon...all were in Haiti by Saturday...
- CIVIL RIGHTS OBSERVERS ORDERED OUT OF HAITI 2,000 MARINES ARE ANCHORED OFF THE...
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) July 12, 1994 700+ words
...of Aristide. The mission in Haiti is the only one that the United...ship Inchon, with 2,000 Marines aboard, has reached its destination off the coast of Haiti. Clinton administration officials insist the Marines are there to prepare
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide has left Haiti, and the Marines have come in.(The...
- Magazine article from: National Review March 22, 2004 700+ words
...Bertrand Aristide has left Haiti, and the Marines have come in. The country...the United States sent Marines to restore him in 1994...without ameliorating Haiti's poverty. His American...grounds. The job of the Marines now is to keep power...
