Cheering on the coup

Not surprisingly, the Bush administration seems all too willing to see Aristide overthrown in Haiti. It takes a lot of chutzpah to tout the virtues of democratic systems ad nauseum, while urging thugs, criminals, and warlords to overrun a democratically elected leader.

To make things worse, the media has been paralyzed with the question of whether the US should "get involved more."

As the Black Commentator notes, "The bloody answer screams back from the Haitian mountains and cities: Washington has already intervened militarily in Haiti, through its surrogates’ armed invasion from the Dominican Republic."