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...shores. Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a democratically elected President owed support in the hemisphere. Yet why should America be willing to put its soldiers' lives on the line to save Haiti? If the U.S. can negotiate with North Korea, why can it not do the same with the unsavory Haitian regime? If the refugees can be filtered through Jamaica, why should the U.S. worry about reforming the society from which they flee? If Aristide is, in the eyes of the U.S., a less than perfect leader, why should Washington take responsibility for returning him to office...
...problem is this: What happens after the initial cheering stops? Boasting only 7,000 men, a handful of armored personnel carriers and a few patrol boats, the Haitian military is, according to a Pentagon analyst, "a joke" that is more likely to surrender early and create a political problem than fight a guerrilla war. But after defeating the army -- which a Pentagon official estimates would be "finished up by dawn" -- the situation gets messy fast. Military force can be an effective tool for toppling regimes, but as a means of rebuilding societies, it is a blunt instrument...
...Administration pointedly refused to rule out a military invasion, though Pentagon aides say no preparations are under way. At an Organization of American States meeting, ministers approved a force of 3,000 to keep the peace after the Haitian regime departs. ABC television reported Friday night that Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott had told U.N. officials the U.S. would invade Haiti in July if sanctions had not succeeded, then hand over quickly to the OAS force. The State Department issued a speedy denial. The U.N. confirmed it had received a memo quoting Talbott but hedged on its contents...
Offering to help President Clinton keep a sticky political promise he made last month, Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos Islands said they would allow the U.S. to set up centers for hearing Haitian refugees' asylum requests. Since May 8, when Clinton said he would end the U.S. policy of summarily returning boat people, more than 1,400 have nevertheless been forcibly repatriated; the Administration says the first Haitians could begin processing in Jamaica this week...
Albright added, "The Haitian people deserve to live in freedom and we are determined to see that they...