"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Eating Dirt for Lunch in Haiti. 'Overwhelming Strength' in Florida
'One thing Rudy Giuliani did after losing the Florida primary was give a speech with the line 'The best way to achieve peace is through overwhelming strength'. That could have been said by the rulers of colonial France as they tore the gold from Haiti's mountains, or by Thomas Jefferson as he warned against tolerating Haiti's slave uprising. Or by the US rulers of the '50s through '80s as they backed the Duvaliers as Haiti's dictators, or of the '90s as they backed the FRAPH death squad and imposed a World Bank/IMF plan on Haiti that -- a decade before Wednesday's dirt-consumption update -- began making Haitians hungrier.?
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