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Huh. I'm not the only one thinking Haiti should become a protectorate. -- (link)

Posted by mara Jan 14 '10, 12:43

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http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/145174/haiti_is_no_ordinary_disaster_--_we_have_to_start_thinking_outside_the_box/ (www.alternet.org)

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Something I didn't know until recently is that Haiti was still paying a "freedom debt" of hundreds of millions of dollars/yr to France until 1949. -- nm - Reagen Jan 14, 12:58 5
- If there was ever a country that Canada should adopt and make it a national effort to assist and help get developed, it's Haiti. - Name Withheld By Request Jan 14, 13:06 3
  - I can see Jean making a big push on this. -- nm - Reagen Jan 14, 13:07 2
    - Yeah....She's not really going to have the stroke to pull that off. Gone in five months. - Name Withheld By Request Jan 14, 13:10
    - i would be okay with this. -- nm - Andie Jan 14, 13:08
- Quelle oxymoron! -- nm - nubby Jan 14, 13:00
The State Department has explicitly said we are not taking over. Also, their president is around - he's just rather ineffectual -- (link) - decline Jan 14, 12:53 1
- ...at the moment. -- nm - TFox Jan 14, 12:54
There are plenty of people who aren't sure we should rebuild New Orleans, and New Orleans isn't close to Haiti. -- nm - TFox Jan 14, 12:51
It should likely be completely evacuted, people settled elsewhere as refugees and then rebuilt from scratch. - Name Withheld By Request Jan 14, 12:48 9
- maybe the people being displaced wouldn't want to be? - Andie Jan 14, 12:55 8
  - "It may not be worth a hill of beans, but this is our hill! And these are our beans!" -- nm - Reagen Jan 14, 12:56 7
    - it's true. it may not be logical, but that doesn't make it wrong. -- nm - Andie Jan 14, 12:56 6
      - No denying that would upset many of the nine million, but let's not kid ourselves that the country is very fixable as it stands. - Name Withheld By Request Jan 14, 13:00 5
        
        I don't think the UN would ever stand for re-colonization (which is what this would amount to). Sets too much of a bad precedent. -- nm - Reagen Jan 14, 13:09
        
        but, again, it's not really our choice to make FOR them. we can give them options, that's all. -- nm - Andie Jan 14, 13:08 3
        
        It's the debate about injection clinics on a mass scale. A situation hurts the person. They cannot escape. We feel better thanks to margianal help. - Name Withheld By Request Jan 14, 13:15 2
        
        but, what you suggest is horribly over-stepping bounds. -- nm - Andie Jan 14, 13:16 1
        
        In the realm of today's standards, sure. Again, I do not deny it could happen in today's environment. - Name Withheld By Request Jan 14, 13:22
we should just take it over now, and use it to house all our prisoners. nm -- nm - groiny Jan 14, 12:47 2
- The Condemend! -- nm - Remlik Jan 14, 12:49 1
  - see, you are coming around! nm -- nm - groiny Jan 14, 12:51
no dice, buddy. -- nm - The Devil Jan 14, 12:47
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That first comment is . . . something. -- nm - pmb Jan 14, 12:46

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