{"id":18035,"date":"2010-03-16T12:13:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T17:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18035"},"modified":"2010-03-16T12:16:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T17:16:11","slug":"flag-flap-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18035","title":{"rendered":"Flag flap in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the USAToday (Army Times link<\/a>), all of the nations who are helping the Haitians recover from the devastating earthquake that hit the already impoverished nation are flying their respective flags over the compounds that house their support personnel. All of the nations except the one that’s shouldering most of the burden. You guessed it;<\/p>\n

“We are not here as an occupation force, but as an international partner committed to supporting the government of Haiti on the road to recovery,” the U.S. government’s Haiti Joint Information Center said in response to a query about the flag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why do our colors represent an “occupation force” any more than the UK’s or France’s?<\/p>\n

A U.S. flag went up at a temporary consular station set up in the first few days on the airport tarmac, according to Charles Luoma-Overstreet, a State Department spokesman in Haiti.<\/p>\n

“Apparently, the prime minister (Jean-Max Bellerive) saw this” and thought it appeared as if the United States were taking over the airport, Luoma-Overstreet said.<\/p>\n

He said Bellerive said something to U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Merten, who agreed that flying the flag wasn’t a good idea and told the consular officials to take it down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, when the flag came down, everyone should’ve climbed on the first thing smoking back to the US. That’s US tax payers’ money being spent on the recovery on that perpetually backwards slab of the island of Hispanola and if they don’t want our flag flying over the heads of our troops and our government employees, they don’t want our money either.<\/p>\n

It sounds like something that would happen during the Jimmy Carter years. We’re there to help them, for fuck’s sake. Naw, bring our troops home from Haiti – the ingrates.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Cortillaen for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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