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...situation in Haiti is sad but predictable. Like many other Carribean basin countries, Haiti's economy has not changed in a decade and a half; Haitian farmers grow thousands of acres of sugarcane for which there is no market in either Europe or the United States. Moreover, when Reagan's Carribean Basin Initiative failed to stimulate growth and create new markets in the mid-1980s, Haiti's faltering economy crumbled. With the collapse, poverty, disease and hunger wracked the population, and misery became the easiest thing to find in the country...
...hearings; candidate Clinton attacked this dictum as both "immoral" and "illegal" throughout the campaign. In January 1993, President Clinton proclaimed that he would temporarily continue the Bush policy until an "acceptable" alternative is found. In June of the same year, Clinton announced economic sanctions would be imposed on the Haitian regime...
...what have we learned so far? Millions of people languish in a brutal military dictatorship in Haiti. Thousands more try to flee to the U.S. every day. President Clinton linked himself to helping the Haitian boat people during the campaign, although many Americans are opposed to allowing those people in the country. There is no place else that will accept them besides the U.S. That leaves two questions left: what ought to be done and what will be done...
...United States should stay out of Haiti. Military intervention is the wrong answer to the Haitian crisis. True, the 7,000 man army that Cedras controls could be subdued within a matter of days. The difficulty would then be taking care of the other 7 million Haitians with no governmental infrastructure. We could...
Nearly seventy-nine years ago, in another July President Wilson faced a similar situation. On July 28, 1915, President Wilson sent the Marines to establish Marines faced demobilized Haitian troops who terrorized the countryside. That long Haitian summer ended in August many years later...