When Sen. John Kerry was interviewed on foreign policy in Houston last Friday by New York Times reporters, he made news by declaring that as president he ''would have been prepared to send troops immediately'' to save Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president of Haiti. The newspaper published his statement Sunday, the very day that Aristide's Lavalas gunmen shot more than 25 peaceful demonstrators (five fatally) who were celebrating his departure. Neither Kerry nor Aristide's other supporters in Washington have mentioned the carnage. Why would the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee vigorously support a tyrant steeped in violence and corruption? Kerry's rationale...
