Haiti Intervention: a mere practice for a Venezuelan coup?
:: skeptical at first, but the similarities will be striking.
Weren't we all wondering why the rebels were not entering Port-au-Prince? We knew there was background negotiations going on. The Marines were there to provide assistance, if necessary. Aristide did not appear like a bluffing man when he insisted interview after interview that he would not resign. He said it on CNN, CBC and Radio-Canada. Same message, same tone, same firmness.
So what happened? What was the use of the intervention.
True, there is no oil in Haiti. Nevertheless, short-term political and electoral objectives and long-term strategic motives in the larger Americas context forced the Bush administration to react and to move fast to avoid future negative outfalls.
Pretty smart move from Bush & Co.: Apart from avoiding the influx of refugees on the shores of the swing state of Florida, by intervening, the Bush administration put on a memorable PR display against the critics who were complaining that the Chickenhawks had forgotten about the Americas while battling the New Crusade and by pretending to being good multilateralists by talking to the French, calling on CARICOM, OAS and the UN they can also confound the critics of the unilateral Iraq approach.
In the end, the Bushies pulled-off another PR stunt to prove the above two points and to be able to run through a potential script for the way a future intervention in Venezuela could be worked out.
As irrelevent as this story may appear today, it has definitely got legs. If the American, French and Canadians are able to secure Port-au-Prince and guide Haiti to a more stable Constitutional setting, during the next crisis in the American hemisphere, people will be less likely to be skeptical when presented with an American "solution".
source: Yahoo! News - Aristide Tells U.S. Contacts He Was Abducted
:: skeptical at first, but the similarities will be striking.
Weren't we all wondering why the rebels were not entering Port-au-Prince? We knew there was background negotiations going on. The Marines were there to provide assistance, if necessary. Aristide did not appear like a bluffing man when he insisted interview after interview that he would not resign. He said it on CNN, CBC and Radio-Canada. Same message, same tone, same firmness.
So what happened? What was the use of the intervention.
True, there is no oil in Haiti. Nevertheless, short-term political and electoral objectives and long-term strategic motives in the larger Americas context forced the Bush administration to react and to move fast to avoid future negative outfalls.
Pretty smart move from Bush & Co.: Apart from avoiding the influx of refugees on the shores of the swing state of Florida, by intervening, the Bush administration put on a memorable PR display against the critics who were complaining that the Chickenhawks had forgotten about the Americas while battling the New Crusade and by pretending to being good multilateralists by talking to the French, calling on CARICOM, OAS and the UN they can also confound the critics of the unilateral Iraq approach.
In the end, the Bushies pulled-off another PR stunt to prove the above two points and to be able to run through a potential script for the way a future intervention in Venezuela could be worked out.
As irrelevent as this story may appear today, it has definitely got legs. If the American, French and Canadians are able to secure Port-au-Prince and guide Haiti to a more stable Constitutional setting, during the next crisis in the American hemisphere, people will be less likely to be skeptical when presented with an American "solution".
source: Yahoo! News - Aristide Tells U.S. Contacts He Was Abducted
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