In Your Own Backyard

Great Op-Ed in the WaPo this morning, from Randall Robinson, on the post-(U.S. supported) coup in Haiti and the effects in the wider Caribbean. Here's a beautiful series of sentences:

Americans must speak out against their government's behavior abroad. And they must recognize that the atrocities inflicted by U.S. soldiers on Iraqi prisoners grow out of a hubris and contempt that far too many U.S. officials display when dealing with much of the rest of the world. If stable Caribbean democracies are being slapped around by America because they uphold democratic values, who is safe in this unipolar world? Certainly not the American people, who are being made targets of global rage because of these tactics.

Go read.