Getting to know the general - Haitian military leader General Raoul Cedras

National Review, Nov 29, 1993 by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The terror is partly orchestrated by the Port-au-Prince police chief, Lieutenant Colonel Michel Francois, and partly carried out by ti soldats and attaches with reasons of their own to fear revenge. Whether or not Cedras himself has blood on his hands, though, it is hard to see how his removal would solve anything in Haiti. Why use American power in a highly interventionist and hazardous way to swap one terror for another?

General Cedras is too proud to justify himself. Producing a copy of the July 3 Governors Island Agreement, however, he did note that Father Aristide had failed to comply with most of the terms. Not that the document mattered any longer. Events had moved along nicely for the general, and he watched with amusement as the CIA, the Pentagon, and conservatives on Capitol Hill undermined the fitful efforts of the Clinton Administration to restore the Little Priest to power. "I see they're calling him a psychopath now. It's becoming a bit of a scandal, isn't it?"

All he has to do next is wait for the humanitarian liberals in Washington to peel away, as CNN begins to show footage of children being starved by the Clinton blockade, Consensus will collapse soon enough.

Asked how long he could hold out against the gunboats of the New World Order, the general looked away lazily and curled his lips into an expression of disdain, mockery, and Gallic hauteur.