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2010-11-13 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Fred 2010-11-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 How about lots and lots of 155mm?

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-11-13 13:08|| 2010-11-13 13:08|| Front Page Top

#2 The only way for that hellhole to advance at all is for the US to take it over again for 30 years and have the Marines and Seabees run it. Take 3 spots on the main island or include one of the smaller islands that is part of Haiti, lease them to the US for 99 years each at $100 million a year each, put Navy, Marine, and Coast Guard major installations there. Have the Marines provide security and civil action teams, while the Seabees do the infrastructure building. The Seabees can add in local construction teams as they are trained. The $300 million a year for leases is put into a fund administered by the US for infrastructure improvement, and the US decides what needs improving first. Encourage private donors to buy surplus CONEX containers to be shipped to Haiti and converted into local housing there -- CONEX housing is fireproof, termite proof, and with cable tie-downs, hurricane rated.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2010-11-13 16:35|| 2010-11-13 16:35|| Front Page Top

#3 We ran Haiti from 1915 to 1934. It made no difference. They were a French colony. They're phuched.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-11-13 16:57|| 2010-11-13 16:57|| Front Page Top

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