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...repeating itself. On Sunday, Jean Bertrand Aristide, the democratically elected president of Haiti, was deposed in the second coup of his political career. The future appears bleak. Despite Colin Powell’s assurance that they “want to put down their arms,” the rebels??led by death-squad veterans and former members of the brutal military government that ruled Haiti from 1991 to 1994—have yet to disarm. What brought Haiti to this tragic pass? Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) put the matter bluntly, asserting the Bush Administration...
...troops (along with 6,000 Filipino soldiers) and millions of American dollars being poured into the hunt for a band of nominally Islamic bandits that Paul Wiseman of USA Today described as “little more than a band of young thugs.” Without question, these rebels??known as the Abu Sayyaf—need to be eliminated, but even taking into account the two American hostages held by the group, the regional nature of the Abu Sayyaf’s activities calls into question the need for such vast expenditures of precious military resources...