CNN.com – Caribbean states call for U.N. force in Haiti – Feb. 26, 2004
The United States can’t send a force, because… uh… we don’t have anyone to send. I hope nobody invades us while all the soldiers are in Iraq. I can’t imagine that we’d look too fondly on a French force, or any European soldiers at all in our backyard. Which means we’d be looking at Latin American soldiers, mostly. Where from? Mexico? Brazil?
Meanwhile, the Bush Brothers are at the double standard game again. W is warning Haitians to not look here to escape from their country getting even worse than usual, and Jeb says that a group of migrants are “hijackers”. I wouldn’t mind this so much if they held Cuban migrants to the same standards. Jeb:
[U]nless they have a well-founded fear of persecution that is specific and meets the criteria of our laws, they should be sent back.”
Jeb, there’s a flipping civil war going on. I think they have a pretty reasonable fear of persecution. But apparently that only counts if it’s a socialist government doing the persecuting, not roaming gangs of thugs that have taken over the country.