re: #262 SixDegrees

And note, you will never see me here parroting the ‘blame the US for all the worlds ills’ line. This is clear case in which the US, and others, have clear responsibilty.

And as far as “except I’m not wallowing in the inaccessible past.” We are not talking about something, like slavery that happened in the remote past, this is the entire history of Haiti, a continuous stream of bad influence from the US that continued up until recently, and continues now in part.

You can not crush a nation for 200 years, leave them destitute and ruined, loot their natural resources and destroy their government, set up the dictatorship to brutalize them, and then blithely say, ‘well, they’re on their own now, why don’t they get it together.’