--uhm, well, yeah, we didn't have to, we bombed the holy moses outta the place, targeted civilians [little eichmans as it were]...and set up the pretext for invading Iraq and Afghanistan invariably. Then again, I've always had trouble distinguishing between bombing countries and invading them. silly me.
http://www.monthlyreview.org/398heuer.htm
"What made Kosovo and Haiti interventions different is that instead of deposting democracies and installing dictatorships -- the typical US pattern in the 20th century -- dictatorships were taken out and popularly elected leaders came to power."
You write as though you know nothing of the shenanigans that went on to ensure that those elected were friendly to US interests to ensure that governments designed their economies in ways that served the desires of international credit institutions's interest in corporate led globalization. When you intervene in Haiti and force an Aristide to submit to US investors' wishes or not secure aid, election or no election, democracy loses most of its content.