Hands-off policy toward Haiti is simply wrong
Nelson, however, is right. By refusing President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s pleas for international help, the Bush administration has made it clear it is siding with a group of rebels, a point reiterated by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry.
”This administration has been engaged in very manipulative and wrongful ways,” Kerry said. “They have a theological and an ideological hatred for Aristide. They always have. They approached this so the insurgents were empowered by this administration.”
Now that Aristide has fled the country and is seeking asylum, the Bush administration has finally decided to send ‘peacekeepers’ to Haiti, apparently to quash any lingering support for the democratically elected Aristide.
The list of thugs this administration does business with grows longer. But would Haitians have fared better had a Democrat been in the White House?