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- From: harry@hershele.alf.dec.com (Harry Katz)
- Subject: Re: Clinton's flip-flop on Haitians!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.220451.24408@netnews.alf.dec.com>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:04:51 GMT
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- In article <13942@optilink.COM>,
- Clayton Cramer (cramer@optilink.COM) writes:
-
- I was horrified by the Bush policy, and irked that Bush
- was more interested in making the liberals happy by
- allowing the thugs that run Haiti to continue to do so
- without "U.S. imperialism" forcing them from power, than
- in correcting a horrendous abuse of human rights.
-
- There is no basis for blaming Bush's Haitian policy on the liberal
- establishment. Most liberals and conservatives both tend to be
- inconsistent in applying their values and solutions to world problems.
- Most conservatives oppose military intervention against right-wing
- dictatorships but support it against the left-wing variety, and most
- liberals will reverse the two. Most liberals are not true pacifists
- who oppose military intervention in all cases, and most conservatives
- are not war mongers intent on intervening whenever and wherever
- democracy is threatened.
-
- I suspect that former president Bush is a typical conservative and did
- not see a need to treat Haiti in the same way that the U.S. treated
- Grenada, for example, because Haiti is not in the "communist" camp.
-
- Harry Katz
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-