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Given the bloodshed predicted, Haiti proved to be a remarkable triumph last week. It is even possible that the deal may stick when the muscle behind it is withdrawn. So why does Bill Clinton's Haitian success have that insistent scent of failure about it? Was it only the stumbling way in which war was avoided? Or the spectacle of a former President in the lair of "thugs," declaring them to be men of honor and denouncing his own country's policy as shameful? It's tempting to focus on Jimmy Carter. We don't encounter him much these days...
...Haitian junta reluctantly agreed to the arrival of U.S. forces, who asserted control over the Caribbean island's military and police. American troops were initially forced to watch uncomfortably as Haitian police savagely beat civilians -- at least one of them to death -- but they were later given permission to use force to prevent such violence. On Saturday, Marines killed eight Haitian men in a firefight outside a police station in Cap Haitien. The U.S. soldiers, who numbered 12,000 at week's end, also disabled many of the heavy weapons of the Haitian army. But army commander Lieut. General Raoul...
...using it. In Clinton's world, intellectual effort is too often directed at blaming others. The President portrays himself variously as the victim of a public that fears change, a cynical post-Watergate nation or the fractionated, post-cold war world. What happens now that U.S. marines have drawn Haitian blood? If the Haiti policy doesn't go well, the Administration will revert to the story it had already begun retailing on "deep background" before the deal was even struck. In that scenario Jimmy Carter exceeded his brief from the start. If the President rejected Carter's deal, the former...
...course, Colin Powell, whom most of Washington is hailing as a prime mover in the Haitian deal. "Jimmy Carter headed the delegation, but everyone knew Colin Powell was the most important person on that plane," says one Administration official. It was Powell who described to Haitian military chief Raoul Cedras in terrifying detail the firepower the U.S. was prepared to use. It was Powell who convinced Cedras that it was more in keeping with military honor to yield than to fight. It was Powell who ultimately persuaded President Clinton to take the deal with all its flaws. If the Haitian...
...soldiers raided the Port-au-Prince headquarters of the hated Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haitia (FRAPH), and several other locations, in the most dramatic strike yet against the ruling junta's recalcitrant militiamen. The move came hours after pro-junta Haitians in the southwestern town of Les Cayes shot and wounded a U.S. Special Forces soldier. After the raid -- in which about 100 U.S. Army personnel detained at least 10 armed Haitians, including a woman who packed a pistol in her bra -- a crowd of club-wielding pro-democracy demonstrators surged into the compound, trashing and smashing...