Reply #48: You have a point. But then there's John Negroponte's Honduras, and well, [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

you could telescope back quite a long ways, on U.S. horrors in Haiti and Honduras alone, one following the next, following the next, all the way to Thomas Jefferson's abandonment of Haiti after the slave rebellion. (I do love Jefferson, kind of the way I love Hamlet or Oedipus--tragically flawed heroes committing soul-searing mistakes that WE can see clearly and they cannot. And I know it was complicated by France, but still...)

I was referring to the RECENT manifestation of horrible U.S. policy with THIS U.S. government. First, Honduras. Now this. "Baby Doc" wouldn't be there if the U.S. didn't want him to be, and it's to punish Haitians for their rejection of the phony election. If they won't bend over for U.S. democracy cosmetics, like they're supposed to, then they get--not who they want, not who they really elected, before the U.S. threw him out--Aristide--but a heinous, bloody-handed fascist.

Lula da Silva was right. Nothing has changed in U.S. policy in Latin America. However, Latin America has certainly changed when a Latin American leader feels free to say such a thing. We have Chavez to thank for that, and I know Lula da Silva does.

It'll be interesting to see what goes down about this. Dilma Rousseff surely won't want another Honduras. Isn't Brazil the main UN peacekeeping force in Haiti? And do you have any knowledge of the U.S. military posture in Haiti?