Reply #59: Even NPR is admitting [View All]

that Aristide is in the Central African Republic after the U.S. "arranged" his departure.

Okay, now if you're the president of a Caribbean country, and you decide to flee (after saying repeatedly that you won't), do you just up and leave one night for...The Central African Republic? This is the first country of refuge that comes to mind? :crazy:

Let's just assume that he wanted to escape to a French-speaking African country. Why not Senegal or Cote d'Ivoire or one of the other more developed coastal countries?

If he does get asylum in South Africa, I hope the government there lets him make his case to the world.

Once again, I am ashamed to be associated with the U.S. government's foreign policy (as I was with the interventions in Central America, the invasion of Grenada, the invasion of Panama, both Gulf Wars, and yes, Clinton's bombings in Sudan).