Bill Clinton's Second Chance in Haiti

I have a friend who's done some volunteer work in Haiti. It's one of the poorest countries in the world, and like many other poor countries, its resources have been pretty thoroughly despoiled, giving it no easy way to dig itself out. He showed me a picture of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic - the Dominican Republic side was lushly forested, but it ended abruptly at the border. All the trees on the Haitian side of the border had been clear-cut.
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One wonders (cynically) what kind of improvements we could bring to Haiti if we spent a small fraction of the money, manpower, and effort there that we've poured into countries on the other side of the world.

Isn't Haiti laissez-faire?

Good for him. There's no excuse for there to be a country in such dreadful shape anywhere, much less in our hemisphere. I rather doubt it would be allowed to exist in that state, were its general population a little lighter in color.

" .. Haiti was the first place that Bill Clinton intervened abroad as President. .."
Haiti was the poorest country in our hemisphere before the intervention. Bravado aside, did Clinton have any plans to alleviate poverty in that land? Not really.
Many years after Clinton's escapades, Haiti is still the poorest country around here.
And Haiti will still be the poorest country in the World after Bill Clinton quits the stage.
Human toll?
Bill Clinton is the proud beneficiary of the Rhodes Scholarship scheme - set up by Cecil Rhodes using the wealth commandeered from the lands of the native Africans who were sent to an early grave by the small-pox pandemic willfully unleashed among them by the bio-terrorist named Cecil Rhodes.

We will see Bill talk with passion - over and over and .. - about the suffering of the blacks in the land of Haiti.

" ..And Haiti will still be the poorest country in the World .."

Change that to: "And Haiti will still be among the poorest countries in the World."

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Ahh, Haiti, 35 years ago, a land of peace and prosperity gently ruled by the Duvaliers and their merrymen the Tontton Macoutes. What a wonderful place to visit. Why wouldn't the former President have fond memories of the Island paradise.
My question is: Doesn't Clinton ever tire of the role of The Big Man? 
Is the solution to Haiti's problems, or should I call it the Haiti Question, a White Bwana in the form of Clinton. I can't think of anything more distasteful than the politician as celebrity or celebrity as politician. What will the Haitians do when they see that Clinton didn't bring with him a forest or an industry or a desalination facility? 
The UN may find this kind of Minstrel Show reassuring, I find it revolting.

cfukura: The Rhodes Trust was established on funds from South Africa, Southern and Northern Rhodesia. Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), under Mugabe, that great African freedom fighter, is about as bad as Haiti. Whatever one might say, with justice, about British imperialism cannot match the nastiness of the Duvalier gang in Haiti or the dictator Robert Mugabe.

Clinton's return to Haiti smacks of a criminal returning to the scene of his crime. Clinton is responsible for the mess Haiti is in today.
I am reminded of an old joke.

A travelling salesman is carjacked. He is beaten, his briefcase full of diamonds is taken, the thief steals all of his clothing, hog-ties him, and takes his car, leaving him lying him helpless by the road. Several hours later a Highway Patrol car pulls up and a trooper steps down, walking purposefully toward the helpless man, who calls out… “They took my car, beat me up, took my clothing and stole my diamonds. The trooper starts to unzip his pants, commenting…”I guess this just isn't your day.”

Clinton is the trooper and Haiti is the ongoing victim.
Clinton invaded Haiti, with 23,000 soldiers, to return a murdering, thieving, cocaine-trafficking, anti-American ex-priest..who was finally removed, again, for these same flaws in 2004. With the 23,000 soldiers in Haiti, Clinton refused to use them for nation-building. They had enough heavy equipment to rebuild the nation. Instead, he had them sit in camps wasting over 43,000,000 man hours and many billions of our dollars.. Why should his new situation be any different? He will simply pocket more money for himself.
Haiti deserves more, but continues to get short-changed.

I have watched with dismay the ebulient welcome received by Bill Clinton when he came down to South Florida to address the Haitian Community. Either Haitians are very forgiven or they suffer from selective amnesia about what had transpired with this man as the Commander in chief of the United States 15 years ago.

Wasn't Bill Clinton the Architect behind Haiti's invasion in 1994?

Isn't that invasion still on-going and being administered by the United States Gurkas occupying forces - the UN?

Isn't Haiti still listed as the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere before, during and after Bill Clinton's engineered invasion?

What is the clamor behind this appointment; or rather, what is the real reason behind Bill Clinton's sudden surge in the world stage and why Haiti?

Could it be that he is sent there to oversee the master plan of unifying the Dominican Republic and Haiti as one; and to give the Dominican Republic the upper hand over Haiti and re-baptize the whole island as Hispaniola?

What of the Drug transhipment problems going through Haiti on its way to the United States? How is that gonna be resolved?

During his address in South Florida, he urged the Haitian-American community to "get involved in their homeland's future saying the community is vital to the success to Haiti's success." How can that be possible when Haiti is under siege?

Haiti needs trees, clean water, solar energy, education, food, flood prevention, security - NOT a perpetual occupation, voting fraud, bullets, tanks, mercenaries, thieves and drug dealers.

Is he for real?

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