[discostu]

Haiti isn't a test of neo-con methods at all. In Haiti we took an ousted dictator and put him back in place, very different than what we're doing in Afghanistan and Iraq.

[FReepaholic]

Neocons? I thought it was Clinton that sent in troops ten years ago.

[stands2reason]

Clinton's a neocon?

[Poohbah]

Ah, yes...the wannabe Field Marshal is heard from again.

[Dr. Frank fan]

The author paints Clinton's installation of Aristide as a "neo-con" thing, and sets up the straw man of "the neo-cons' thesis ... that history and culture simply don't matter" to knock down.

What the heck is he talking about? He just wants to bad-mouth "neo-cons", correct?

[RightWhale]

fools, lightweights who can dismiss history and culture because they know nothing of history or culture.

Bet the author has no idea what he wrote here. He probably can't define history properly, nor culture.

[Qwinn]

That has got to be one of the stupidest articles I have ever read in my -life-. I mean, seriously, hands down!

Clinton was a neocon?!

Chalabi bears even a -slight- resemblance to Aristide?!

Haiti bears even a -slight- resemblance to Iraq?!

What a freakin' moron.

Qwinn

[KantianBurke]

How many years will our forces be in that pit? Bush trying for a Western Hemisphere Kosovo?

[mrsmith]

Our first great foreign policy success was when America's founding 'neocons' got Louisiana by kicking a dictatorship out of Haiti.

President Adams used our first navy to help the revolutionaries to kick the French out.

President Jefferson allowed the French to have it back.

Poor place, kicked around since the day it was born.

Oh well, thanks to Adams ( and some in Jefferson's administration too to be fair), Napoleon realized they had to give us Louisiana if they wanted to keep Haiti.

[kevao]

William S. Lind. Any relation to that rat-boy, Taliban Johnny?

[steplock]

The clinton/carter cartel installed a communist pig as dictator of haiti and now this same POS is on his way to join his fellow communist dictators in south africa. Now only if clinton/carter/jackson would just follow him to south afreica and we can always hope they learn what a necklace was to the south africans.

[Qwinn]

Alright, let me put my objections this way.

I opposed Clinton's actions in Haiti, not because the U.S. President in power was a Democrat, but because Aristide is a communist sympathizing dictator.

I supported Bush's actions in Iraq, not because the U.S. President in power was a Republican, but because Saddam Hussein was a communist sympathizing dictator.

But -that said-, regardless of what the intentions of Democrats like Clinton are, they will always fail in methodology. A common thread in absolutely every intervention Clinton (or any other Democrat U.S. President since Truman) began is that they would only commit just enough U.S. forces to -lose-. Republicans commit enough forces to win. So although my main reasons for supporting the Iraq intervention while opposing the Haiti intervention are what I said they were, it's also a fact that given the exact same action for the same exact motivations, the Democrats would definetly fail, whereas the Republicans would actually have a shot at succeeding.

Qwinn

[r9etb]

What a stupid article.

[pfflier]

But I forget: just ten years ago, we solved all of Haiti's problems. Applying the neo-cons' prescription for the whole world, we sent in thousands of American troops, overthrew the "undemocratic" Haitian government and installed Haiti's Mr. Chalabi, Monsieur Aristide -

Is this for real? Is it from the Onion?

Is there anyone alive that doesn't know that klintoon and the congressional black carcass restored Aristide as the Haitian dictator? No one ever accued them of being neo-cons.

[Prodigal Son]

Clinton is a neo-con nowadays?

There goes the neighborhood.

[Aggie1]

Yes, we know democracy cannot work in any other culture. Just look at Japan. Oh, wait a minute. Wrong example. Just look at Hong Kong. Wait a minute I'll come up with one in a minute. Yea, just look at Russia and Poland, Chzech Republic, South Africa, Israel, Brazil, Mexico. No, no wait. Oh yea CUBA! See he's right democracy doesn't work there!