Kerry Criticized the President
I was doing my normal morning treadmill exercise and at the same time watching the Democrats debate prior to super Tuesday. When asked about Haiti, Candidate Kerry replied “He's late, as usual. This president always makes decisions late after things have happened that could have been different had the president made a different decision earlier.”
When pressed to explain his position, he said, “Well, first of all, I never would have allowed it to get out of control the way it did. This administration empowered the insurgents, and it empowered -- look, Aristide... I'll tell you precisely how, but first let me say this. President Aristide has made plenty of mistakes, and his police have run amok, and other things have happened, I understand that. But the fact is that, by giving to the insurgents the power to veto an agreement, they effectively said, Unless you two reach an agreement on the sharing of power, we're not going to provide aid and assistance. So he empowered the insurgents to say, No, we're not going to reach agreement. And they continued to battle, continued to have no services provided in Haiti, and then it started to spiral downwards. So the result is that you almost inevitably had the clash that you have today. And innocent Haitians, the people of Haiti, deserved better than that over the course of the last year.
Let’s analyze what he said.
He said that the Bush administration empowered the insurgents because the Bush administration wanted Aristide and the rebels to make an agreement of sharing power and as a result the insurgents virtually said no and continued to fight.
I find this statement very troubling, if this is Mr Kerry’s example of his foreign policy. First of all in a democracy, the people has the sole power. Not the ruler. Only socialist countries like Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea and China are countries where the rulers have the power.
Mr Kerry admitted that Pres Aristide made plenty of mistakes. And that’s the reason why the Haitians are angry, because of those mistakes. Isn’t it logical to insist that those mistakes be corrected in order to have peace? Mr Kerry never mentioned that those mistakes should be corrected.
I am assuming that Mr Kerry would like Mr Bush to follow just like what Mr Clinton did when Pres Aristide was in trouble the first time. Mr Clinton restored him to power in 1994 by sending 23,000 American troops to Haiti spending $2.3 billion of our hard earned money. But Mr Aristide, a socialist, never corrected or wanted to correct his mistakes. Mr Clinton’s action was a mistake because Aristide did not change, yet Mr Kerry say’s “let’s do it again”.
What do you think?