March 1 2004 In 1994 when President Bill Clinton sent 20000 American squads into Haiti to restore Jean-Bernard Aristide to the presidency.

March 1 2004

In 1994 when President Bill Clinton sent 20000 American squads into Haiti to restore Jean-Bernard Aristide to the presidency, there was widespread support for a mission aimed at restoring democracy and relieving the misery of the Haitian commonalty It also seemed to herald a fresh day in the post-cold war world, when American invasions were not automatically synonymous with supporting a Latin American caudillo or southern East Asian despot.

With the exception of the isolationist Right, virtually each voice in the political representation cheered the policy of "liberal intervention." The use of American power