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Originally posted by Scipio
The waters on this issue are so muddy right now. Aristide bad! No, Aristide good!
Aristide: "They abducted me, I tell you! At gunpoint!"
Powell, Rumsfeld, et. al: "What, are you gonna listen to this guy? We'd never do anything like that! You trust us, right?"
We have evidence, and now I don't know what to think!
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I guess this is where character comes into play.
We have Aristide's bio, we have the rebel leaders' bios, and we know who's interest the CIA is protecting when it meddles in the affairs of other nations, along with we know who's interest our administration is protecting when it meddles (or refuses to meddle, as the case may be) in foreign affairs--their own!
Anyway, while it's possible that Aristide changed from a socialist priest who was concerned with the welfare of the downtrodden and attempted to buck the demands of the IMF and World Bank into a money hungry, power grabbing elitist; and it's possible that villians who massacred people and kept the population under military rule for decades changed into a group that cares for the masses--I don't see these as likely attitude and perspective shifts.
I don't need to go too deep into the motives of the CIA or our adminstration, but I don't see them as being very concerned with the impoverished segments of Haiti.
That's the lense I'm using while sifting through this information.