Jesus Christ - 01 June 2012 06:12 PM
Milktree - 01 June 2012 05:43 PM
What I am still clearly lacking in explanation is how did we, a mixed group of enslaved people (NATIONS) that fought successfully to free ourselves from slavery, yanked land from European slavers to form a (our own) country, Haiti. And to even poised ourselves in assisting others to fight for their very own liberty, found a necessity to control a people sharing another part of our same island, which today, culminated into such a mistrustful relationship between Haitian people & the Dominican people?
It was the right thing to do to try to get control of the entire island.
That is what nations/people with brains do.
Instead of wasting time and resources with Bolivar.....they should have created a nation of fighters armed to the teeth....and all resources spent on land and sea armament.
Unfortunately, the people in control of haiti reverted to their african non achieving way....and allowed a much smaller group at that time to restrict them to one third of an already small island.
They even allowed a pro-french halfbreed minority to subjugate them in that little one third.
And the worthless petion and boyer set haiti down its path to failure.
So yes the negros and halfbreeds were unable to build a nation.
Yes... you brought in a very interesting point had we concentrated our resources to be armed to the teeth, since we were already a nation of valiant fighters, we would have been feared even more.
Additionally, we simply would have to also become very crafty negotiators in order to buy arms & whatever weapons of technology necessary then, in order to continue being a feared army under the commerce isolation imposed on the country of Haiti.
In reality, what good had our investments in Bolivar done for Haiti so far? ... Until perhaps recently, having to finally hear some mea culpa & bit of acknowledgment from Chavez, openly televised, in the assembly of other Latin American leaders or politicians.
Indisputably, that made poor investment, which brought Haiti back "nada" in return...
But still, going with your suggested strategy to have placed the entire island under one control, as I see it in that time, would have helped very little to combat the isolation against Haiti, as it was set by those nations who also controlled the seas at that time.
Perhaps in their strategy to extend to Bolivar, and in the will of our ancestors to offer joining in battle along sides of anyone who'd dared fight for their own liberty & independence during those time, could have been a response to some sort of strategy to combat the isolation our young nation faced.
Had our fighting fever spread to other places and forced to cut short the control span of slavery & also consequently helped other nations to loosen the clutches of the European’s dominating controls, than I think the returns from such investment would be easier to see today.
