The Haiti Imbroglio

Wall Street Journal ^ | April 6, 2004 | RAYMOND A. JOSEPH

[OESY]

After the flood, it's time to salvage what's left of the wreckage in Haiti. It's also time for a reassessment of the tragic Haitian democratic experiment.

The flood was real in Haiti. The forces that propelled Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power had called themselves the "Lavalas Movement." Lavalas, or avalanche in Creole, is a flash flood that destroys everything in its path.

[OESY]

Sen. "Lavalas" Kerry and the Black Caucus supported Aristide.

[OESY]

Mr. Kerry berated President Bush for not sending the Marines to shore up President Aristide in his last days. Will Mr. Kerry -- if he is elected president of the U.S. -- send the Marines to Haiti, as President Clinton did, to return Mr. Aristide to power? Once a symbol of democracy, Mr. Aristide is now perceived as a corrupt collaborator of drug dealers and a violator of human rights who has grown rich at the expense of his impoverished fellow citizens.

Would anyone care to guess Kerry's response? How about: "Yes and No; it depends."

[Wolfie]

Taint of Drugs Reaching Haiti's Upper Echelon

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[RWCon]

Maybe they need Baby Doc back again.

[John O]

Certainly John Kerry, the standard bearer of the Democrats, cannot believe that being "democratically elected" is a carte blanche to undertake mayhem against one's own country.

Of course he does. He's a democrat after all.