US involvement in Haiti!

chill

The US should have kicked that criminal Aristide's ass out of there long ago. This is a totally failed state who's people have proved they can't run a piss up in a brewery.
That's fine if they keep to themselves and stop trafficking drugs through to the rest of the world and can manage some semblence of democracy...

The US should have gone in there long ago and taken control - and if the UN can get it's dysfunctional head around it then they should be there too - for at least ten years this time !!

The Haitian people are damned lucky they are off the coast of the US, because if they were in Africa then millions of them would be dead by now....

lili

so chill, in short, for have the luck USA involved in your country you have to :

- live in a country which produce oil
- live in a middle east country
- live near USA coasts
- live in a country supposed to be under terrorists or commies influences

sovtek

Originally posted by chill
The US should have kicked that criminal Aristide's ass out of there long ago.

As opposed to supporting mass murderers and dictators?

This is a totally failed state who's people have proved they can't run a piss up in a brewery.

Of course that's had nothing to do with "first world" interventions in their economic affairs.

That's fine if they keep to themselves

Being obvious by now that certain developed nations don't want it that way.

and stop trafficking drugs

As opposed to us buying them.

can manage some semblence of democracy...

Might help if "we" quit supporting dictators and coups.

The US should have gone in there long ago and taken control

Over it's history...they have...many times..the most recent being last Sunday. One might come to the conclusion that that is the main problem.

- and if the UN can get it's dysfunctional head around it then they should be there too - for at least ten years this time !!

Two of the 5 most powerful nations in the UN didn't want it that way...so it didn't happen.

The Haitian people are damned lucky they are off the coast of the US, because if they were in Africa then millions of them would be dead by now....

What? From AIDS? :rolleyes:

BattleBoar

Originally posted by bonkey
So you're saying that intervention in the various genocides which occurred in Eastern Europe in the last two decades was a bad idea because there was no way it could have worked?

I would have been of the opinion that the intervention came too late...not that it should have been avoided.

Its not always a simple case of ppl just being intent on killing each other.
jc

Often what is needed is an honest broker, someone from outside who won't take part in the petty bickering that has grown into outright murder. Do you honestly think the international community's indifference in Rwanda was correct? 1,500,000 bodies later?

I'm not saying the international community should be indifferent at all. I am saying that If what is going on is a civil war, no country's military should intervene. The only intervention should be political. The only militarily intervention, IMO, should be from UN peacekeeper troops. No one else. Unless they have a blue helmet, no go.

bonkey

Originally posted by BattleBoar
I am saying that If what is going on is a civil war, no country's military should intervene.

Ah, I see now. That wasn't clear from your original post....you seemed to be more taking the line of "if they wanna fight, you can't stop them, so why bother".

jc