Word: haitianize
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...cooperation was strained by the first incident of violence against pro-Aristide demonstrators soon after the arrival of troops. The graphic sights of Haitian civilians being beaten to death under the eyes of well-armed G.I.'s forced the Clinton administration to speed up its disarmament of the Haitian armed forces. American troops were also given a broader mandate to deter excesses by pro-junta forces...
...Haitian police and army have been formally defanged, the more shadowy tentacles of the junta remain, the notorious "attaches." They will not retreat until the military government no longer has power. And disarming them will be a difficult task; their weapons are not held in armories but in private homes around the country...
...President Clinton is wont to call them-get the message that their ticket has been punched, they won't have without a fight. Not a fight in the traditional sense, but other more violence aimed at leaving a few American soldiers deal and turning American public opinion against the Haitian adventure. This is a storm that the administration must weather. The good of the Haitian people and the credibility of American foreign police are intertwined. To back down would do serious damage to both...
...Haitian adventure, the admixture of Carter's mind-set and personality to those of Clinton produced strange effects. Clinton turned himself into the hypermasculine, planes-in-the-air bad cop while Carter fluttered in as the angel of conciliation, the Blanche DuBois of crisis diplomacy...
...case, many of the evils of the planet (General Cedras and the atrocities of Haitian politics, for example, or the slaughters in Rwanda) undeniably arise from a brutal, uncivilized, masculine side of human character. It may be advisable -- and constitutionally imperative -- for American Presidents to keep American soldiers out of such satanic messes. Clinton has been neither aggressive nor effective in facing the tragedies of Bosnia and Somalia, which may be part of the reason he felt tempted by the apparently more manageable case of Haiti. But if a President asks American soldiers to go in, what is needed...