re the stage is being set srinivas suder writes if the haitian people s will is that their current govt get thrown out they ll find a way to do it getting the us un to short cut the process will only hasten it but sets a bad precedent can the us interfere everywhere why not right at our doorstep cuba precisely why not cuba why not the hatians are being ruled by thugs and their elected leader has asked support to reestablish the peoples will if the u s or any other democracy wishes to they are in the perfect right to help them without any whining from thir parties after all if it turns out to be colonialism and the poeple don t like it they find a way to throw them out there is an implicit assumption here that we as outsiders have a right to sit in judgement of another people and to then act on it to me it is in there that the roots of old colonial attitudes lie today the motives are noble tomorrow they may not be who ever said people who commit genocide have the right to commit genocide i want a world where criminals agains humanity have no place to hide while you want special sovereignties designed to protect them nobody has the right to commit crimes against humanity and if they do they loose all right to self determination if this is classical colonialism then so be it edelmiro salas
