Mary Anastasia O’Grady from the Wall Street Journal gives us yet another great editorial that is definitely a must read. Comparing the current Honduran situation with that of Aristide and Haiti during the Clinton administration, O’Grady finds that the US has a history of “backing” the wrong guy.
In October 1994, President Bill Clinton used the U.S. military to force Haiti to take back former President Jean Bertrand Aristide, an intolerant populist who had been deposed in a coup three years earlier. The Haitian people didn’t fare well under the decade of Aristide tyranny and corruption following that U.S. intervention. But key Democrats, who secured contracts with the Haitian government, did.
This sad chapter in U.S. foreign policy is a reminder of the immortal words of the French statesman Charles Talleyrand: “Countries don’t have friends, they have interests.” The Clinton administration had interests in Haiti. And that fact is worth recalling as President Barack Obama, defying all logic, insists that Castro-ally Manuel Zelaya be restored to the presidency in Honduras.
Aristide is merely one example from the long list of tyrants the US has chosen to support–Zelaya is just the latest. This dubious list also includes a name most of you are probably familiar with: Fidel Castro.
Read the entire editorial HERE.
Please. Who cares? Haitians, Hondurans, Cubans, what’s the difference? Just inferior, third-world “exotic” types whose only real use is to serve the purposes of their betters, like American and European investors and tourists. Get over it already.