a1805: Re: a1724: (a1720) - The frosting on the cake (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Walter Miale <wmiale@acbm.qc.ca>

Bob Walton:
"During the 1994 military operation to restore Haiti's legal government,
the US and the Cedras 'government' reached an agreement that provided
guarantees for the personal safety of many of its senior scum in exchange
for avoiding a blood-bath. Would the Haitian people preferred the
alternative?"

Yes, they would no doubt have preferred that Uncle Sam oust Cédras &
company with a twitch of his eyebrow instead of the invasion. And that the
wheels of justice be allowed to turn.


Chamberlain:
>.
>Let's have the historical honesty to recognise what happened,
>acutely embarrassing though it is to many Lavalassiens, without ducking
>into the familiar diversions (the "neo-liberal plan" etc).  Aristide's
>physical return didn't fit the revolutionary textbooks....

Well yes, but the game plan was rewritten with the return of Michael
Manley. If a country is weak enough and the government's choices
sufficiently restricted, we can tolerate even a Manley or a Lavalas. A
touch of democracy is the frosting on the cake.