[lbo-talk] Peter Hallward: Option Zero in Haiti

Simon Huxtable jetfromgladiators at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 24 07:17:57 PDT 2004


Good article. Where does the confusion over turnout for the May 2000 elections come from? Some say 10 percent, others say it's 60. Surely it can't be that hard?

Simon

Option Zero in Haiti Peter Hallward

As his advisors ponder the ever more troubling consequences of regime change in Iraq, Bush is entitled to take some comfort from the far more successful operation just completed in Haiti. No brusque pre-emptive strikes, domestic carping or splintering coalitions have marred the scene; objections from caricom and the African Union have carried no threats of reprisal. In overthrowing the constitutionally elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide, Washington could hardly have provided a more exemplary show of multilateral courtesy. Allies were consulted, the un Security Council’s blessing sought and immediately received. The signal sent to Chávez, Castro and other hemispheric opponents was unambiguous—yet it was not a bullying Uncle Sam but France that made the first call for international intervention in Haiti’s domestic affairs.

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http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR26102.shtml

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