On the other hand. and I think relevant to this debate. there is a very considerable difference with respect to Haiti. Vital interests of the United States are clearly present in that nation. It is relatively close to our shores. and overwhelmingly the disturbances. the violence. the lack of security in Haiti threatens the United States with the onset of literally hundreds of thousands of refugees seeking freedom. seeking security in a way with which we all sympathize but in a place which simply does not have room for them. We cannot be the recipient of literally hundreds of thousands of people from one small country when there is any remote other alternative to provide security there. Second. there is at least some goal which this administration has articulated in this case. the restoration of an elected government for a government which took power by a military coup.
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