Haiti

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bertrand_Aristide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Duvalier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Americas

William Lind says Haiti is in fact a fair test of the neo-cons' thesis, a thesis we are now putting to further trials in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their core argument is that history and culture simply don't matter. Everyone in the world wants American-style "democratic capitalism," and everyone is also capable of it. To think otherwise is to commit the sin of "historicism."


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