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I found the following at the European Union’s website, entitled The Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti.
Haiti has been faced with a serious political and socioeconomic crisis for several years. The situation deteriorated dramatically in February 2004 with the violent take over of a number of towns in the northern part of the country by armed rebels and criminal gangs&ellip;
The article goes on to explain the current situation in Haiti, and the troubles there. How come this aide to Haiti is coming from the European Union? The EU has sent over €7,601,255 in aide there. That’s nice. How much has the United States pledged? Somewhat more&ellip;but then again Haiti is right in our backdoor. And still the political situation is horribly wretched in Haiti.

Part of the reason, is that for years we’ve been sending aide to keep one person in power or someone else, without doing a damn thing to help the people.
The striking difference between Europe and America in the 21st Century is that the political situation in most European nations has stabilized, and for those that are still “working on it” the stable nations of the European Union are pretty much acting like big brothers, and keeping the underdeveloped nations like Albania and Serbia from collapsing into ruin again. There will never be another war fought between European Nations.

American policy seems to be to maintain political upheaval in our neighboring nations. In my lifetime alone we’ve had civil war in Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador; civil upheaval in Colombia, Venezuela, Panama to name a few. And for over two hundred years, we’ve done nothing but participate in one coup d’êtat after another in Haiti. Our government not only condones war, we pay for it.

I’m sure some overzealous patriotic conservative will tell me if I don’t like it, I should move to France. Not today, I’m afraid. I’m not sure what their immigration quota is these days. Besides, someone's got to stay behind and keep these crazy American leaders from destroying the world.