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October 21, 2004
Kerry gets blame for Haiti unrest
Perhaps you thought, like I did, that statements made by political candidates during their campaigns - and especially during debates - had little or no effect on reality. After all, a lot of the "tough talk" is contradicted by 30 years worth of voting history, promises made are almost uniformly not kept, and it's all just a highly-scripted, carefully-choregraphed spy-vs.-spy sort of senseless slugfest anyway, right? Well, wrong on one count, anyway:
The commander of the UN peacekeepers in Haiti has linked a recent upsurge in violence there to comments made by the US presidential candidate, John Kerry. Read the whole story.
So now we have rebels in a developing country inspired by the words of one of our presidential candidates to keep fighting, in case he's elected and our country reverses our policy on their man. Now that's the kind of strong leadership for a stronger America that we need!
Posted by david at October 21, 2004 11:16 AM
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