that, Columbus would be remembered as a villain who committed genocide
on the island of Haiti, instead of as the white-washed hero who made
the world no longer flat (which people didn't generally believe it was
in the first place).
> TIME TO COME HOME?
> The following commentary is another example of how we
> don't' follow other
> stations' party line as we review The Point from 2003.
> It's time to withdraw our troops from Iraq. Or is it?
> Major combat operations ended last spring. Critics argue
> that after five
> months its time our troops come home.
> Now, how about some perspective. World War Two and the
> Korean War ended more
> than 50 years ago, but there are still about 72,000 troops
> in Germany and
> 38,000 in South Korea. Little old Kosovo still has about
> 1600 American
> troops although that conflict ended in 1999. Bill Clinton
> promised all US
> forces would be out of Bosnia-Herzegovina by December
> 1996, but 3100 remain.
> Where are the calls for withdrawal from these countries?
> Now, there are no U.S. troops in Vietnam. But I guess we
> lost that war. The
> last of 20,000 US military left Haiti five years after
> Clinton ordered its
> 1994 invasion. Jean Bertrande Aristide, reinstalled as
> Haitian President by
> the U.S., rules one of the most brutal countries in the
> Western Hemisphere.
> Now, there's a success story for you.
>
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