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Bagua1/15/2010 2:31:31 pm PST

re: #337 reine.de.tout

OK.
This is recent, and going on now.
How would you propose to go back and re-do history? It seems to me logically, we can only proceed from the present forward, and aid seems to be being given.

At what point does the Haitian government begin to take on some level of resonsibility for what goes on there?

We don’t re-do history of course. But what we can do is correct past deeds and take responsibility for them.

As far as the Haitian government, it was precisely the US which destroyed their constitutional system and supported the resulting dictatorships. This has left them in the pitiful state they are in.

On the other hand, countries like Japan and Germany who waged war on the US received massive aid in restoring their economies and governments. The Haitians, who did not wage war on the US, are left to rot and only get minimal assistance in the most dire of circumstances.