Word: duvalierization
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To the chagrin of ex-Presidents-for-Life Baby Doc Duvalier and Ferdinand Marcos, the U.S. is back in the business. And judging from the favorable reaction of liberals and conservatives alike to the American role in Haiti and the Philippines, that business -- intervention -- has once again become respectable.
But, of course, Marcos was no typical elderly vacationer and his stay on the Hawaiian Islands will be no ordinary sojourn. As Baby Doc Duvalier had recently done in Haiti, Marcos had just bid a hasty adieu to a people and a nation he had ruled for many years with...
Although the former Haitian honcho's wealth is apparently not as great, Duvalier and his entourage don't exactly have to travel on the budget plan, either. While the Mitterand government decides what to do with him, Duvalier and his family are currently holed up in a posh Parisian hotel...
IT WOULD BE wrong for the U.S. to hang Marcos and Duvalier out to dry. For one thing, this would be unfair to men who, like it or not, were for many years "our S.O.B.s" in the fight against the Evil Empire. But, more important, it would send the wrong...
But America should hold its collective nose and allow the Marcos's and Duvalier's of the world to finish off their sad, little, miserable lives in relative comfort. If that's the price we have to pay so as not to discourage other dictators from one day booking one...