"My palace collapsed. ... I can't live in the palace!
*** Haiti President Rene Preval, January 14th, 2010
***Actual quote
al-Guardian editors and writers should run the world, because it is always evident that only they could do it properly.........
When do we start paying the reparations?
Oh, and I am sorry, so-so very sorry about whatever I did back then. Heck, should I even quit eating rice as a sign of my very, very, very sincere sorryness?
BTW.. I know that sorryness has not been a real word, but so many words have been removed or made illegal over the past few years, I am now on a personal mission to create some new ones.
The Guardian is a little mouse, the Democrats’ answer to the “vast right wing conspiracy”.
Nobody pays attention to the Guardian.
the Americans with cheap rice imports in the 1980s;
The Guardian would have liked high priced rice imports?
There is no pleasing the left so F’em.
The first four presidents of Haiti were all overthrown by the next, usually after proclaiming themselves emperors for life. The country was founded in 1804 but did not have a president who peacefully completed his term in office until 1874!
In total, 27 different Haitian heads of state have been forcibly overthrown - four of them killed in the process. Only 9 Haitian presidents have completed their terms by comparison, and that includes interim presidents who came to power after coups.
You can't blame America for that.
In fact, just about the ONLY period of stability in all of Haitian history was the U.S. occupation from 1915-34 (which is also when 4 of those 9 presidents served).
Gross historical error in first sentence. (How about Spartacus, among others?) Why should I read any more?
” Haiti has been treated as a basket case where corruption, gang violence and natural disaster combine to drag the country backwards.”
It has been treated that way because that is what it is. It doesn’t make the tragedy of the earthquake any less tragic. But the country was a basket case before the earthquake. It will almost certainly continue to be a basket case after it recovers.
But I don’t know why this has anything to do with the proper human response to a tragedy of this magnitude or why folks at the Guardian insist on seeing an earthquake as an occasion for lectures about imperialism blah blah blah.
They should take the ink wasted on this article, sell it, donate it to a charity that is actually doing something. At least a little something good would come from that.
"My palace collapsed. ... I can't live in the palace!
*** Haiti President Rene Preval, January 14th, 2010
***Actual quote
Frankly it isn't worth the typing time to play their little game. These people are worthless slugs sniping from the sidelines while the first team is knee-deep in mud and blood. As usual.
It’s a disasster. But let’s be honest. Most people are too pissed off right now to really care.