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Speaker 1: The presidential election is likely to be decided by events

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Speaker 1: that have yet to occur, much more so than the

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Speaker 1: events that have already occurred. And what's occurring in Haiti

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Speaker 1: is anarchy. People will flee by the hundreds, and then

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Speaker 1: by the thousands, and by the ten thousands, and maybe

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Speaker 1: by the one hundred thousands and maybe a million. The

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Speaker 1: only country that has the capacity to do any of

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Speaker 1: this is the United States of America. Have you ever

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Speaker 1: had the experience of driving on a long road, watching

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Speaker 1: it wind and undulate, seeing the hills come up ahead.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever pondered who built the road? Where did

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Speaker 1: it lead to, and where did it come from? Why

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Speaker 1: did someone build that road, and who had the wisdom

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Speaker 1: to maintain it. We're very lucky to live in a

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Speaker 1: country that has been passed on to us by builders,

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Speaker 1: by people who architected ideas into reality and advanced them

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Speaker 1: through great turmoil and terrible cost, through the trials of

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Speaker 1: injustice and war and hunger and depression, to make the

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Speaker 1: union more perfect. And here we are, imperfectly but known

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Speaker 1: around the world as a beacon of opportunity and hope

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Speaker 1: and justice. One of the great divisive issues of our

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Speaker 1: time a time of ingratitude. Is that as we angrily

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Speaker 1: as a nation look at our borders and denounce the

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Speaker 1: human beings who have struggled to reach them, we do

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Speaker 1: so at the same time for many of us being

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Speaker 1: enthrolled to a man who denounces the nation as worthless

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Speaker 1: that those people would risk everything to reach. There seems

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Speaker 1: to be an imbalance, a lack of symmetry between the

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Speaker 1: rhetoric and the reality. We are lucky to live in

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Speaker 1: the United States. All across the world, there are places

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Speaker 1: that are steeped in oppression and brutality, where people can

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Speaker 1: with no law to protect them. There are places like Yemen,

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Speaker 1: in Syria, in Afghanistan and Somalia, where the law is

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Speaker 1: the law of the jungle. The strong survive and they

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Speaker 1: prey on the weak. Brutality is the only morality that

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Speaker 1: is practiced. Cruelty is currency, Starvation is common. This is

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Speaker 1: the soil from which terror grows. Hopelessness boisters more hopelessness

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Speaker 1: and hate and rage and anger. Americans over the last

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Speaker 1: quarter century have come to think of failed states as

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Speaker 1: places far away in the world, places that Americans understand

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Speaker 1: can directly threatened the stability of the United States. Because

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Speaker 1: the world is small and interconnected, the American news media very,

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Speaker 1: very rarely talks about what's happening in the Western hemisphere.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that Venezuela has amassed its armed forces

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Speaker 1: on the border of its smaller but oil rich neighbor, Guyana.

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Speaker 1: Did you know the current inflation rate in Argentina is

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty percent. The new president Mele is

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Speaker 1: attempting to impose his austerity package on a country where

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Speaker 1: sixty percent of the population is now dealing with food insecurity.

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Speaker 1: Something will give one way or another soon enough, The

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Speaker 1: point being, though, there are words that are seldom said

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Speaker 1: on American cable news. No, those words aren't Travis Kelcey

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Speaker 1: or Taylor Swift. Their words like Venezuela and Guyana, words

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Speaker 1: like Nicaragua, Nol Salvador and Honduras, words like North Dakota

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Speaker 1: and South Dakota, words like Nebraska and Indiana. The unseen places.

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Speaker 1: One of the unseen places is the country where it

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Speaker 1: is most convenient to turn away from, to cast our

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Speaker 1: eyes away from, Just as Americans might do, is they

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Speaker 1: walk down a Street in New York City or Denver,

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Speaker 1: or Los Angeles or San Francisco, and see long encampments

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Speaker 1: of homeless, some of them migrants. It is our nature

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Speaker 1: to look away, and so the world has looked away

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Speaker 1: from Haiti as it has always looked away from Haiti.

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Speaker 1: Did you know the population of Haiti is eleven million people,

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Speaker 1: the most in the Caribbean. Did you know that by

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Speaker 1: land area, Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean.

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Speaker 1: Did you know its government has fallen? The chaos reigned

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Speaker 1: supreme that the dominant gang leader is a man named Barbecue.

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Speaker 1: The former policeman turned gang leader is known for cooking

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Speaker 1: his opponents and feeding their remnants to the stray street

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Speaker 1: dogs that dominate Pordoo Prince. Did you know is eight

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Speaker 1: hundred miles from the southern tip of Florida. Here's the

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Speaker 1: thing about American politics and the punditocracy and everybody who

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Speaker 1: predicts what's coming next. The next prediction is often based

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Speaker 1: on the last event. With the lack of imagination about

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Speaker 1: what the next event might be. The presidential election is

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Speaker 1: likely to be decided by events that have yet to occur,

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Speaker 1: much more so than the events that have already occurred.

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Speaker 1: And what's occurring in Haiti is anarchy no different than

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Speaker 1: the anarchy in Somalia. What will happen next is an

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Speaker 1: outbreak of disease, atrocities, chaos, and then people will flee

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Speaker 1: the hundreds, and then by the thousands, and by the

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Speaker 1: people from the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, all

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Speaker 1: of them black, fleeing, fleeing the western hemisphere of Somalia.

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Speaker 1: The immigration crisis in America is about to get a

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Speaker 1: lot worse. And there's a simple truth to the matter.

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Speaker 1: Nations like Canada should be leading the international effort. They

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Speaker 1: should be sending soldiers and peacekeepers. But the only country

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Speaker 1: that has the capacity to do any of this is

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Speaker 1: the United States of America, and that reality is triggering

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Speaker 1: a profound resentment amongst the American people, who look more

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Speaker 1: and more favorably to demagogues like Donald Trump, who tell

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Speaker 1: them the United States is owed more than it is

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Speaker 1: required to give. And when there is an absence of

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Speaker 1: of meaningful way when it comes to danger, when it

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Speaker 1: comes to the urgent fights at the edges of the abyss,

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Speaker 1: where humanity itself is threatened by evil, as is the

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Speaker 1: case in Haiti, it should not be the case America

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Speaker 1: alone forever. Where are the French? Where are the Canadians?

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Speaker 1: Where are the Kenyans? This is what Secretary Blincoln is

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Speaker 1: working hard on in jim But the reality is this.

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Speaker 1: The clock is ticking in Haiti. Anarchy begets disease, begets death,

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Speaker 1: begets in humanity and suffering. That beggar imagination. How does

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Speaker 1: rwanda happen? First there is chaos and then there is murder.

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Speaker 1: This lesson is repeated over and over and over again,

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Speaker 1: and this time it's close to America's shores. This time,

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Speaker 1: ignoring it won't work. Haiti is a country with a

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Speaker 1: tragic history, steeped in a great and fundamental glory, a

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Speaker 1: beautiful culture and a tragic past. The only country in

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Speaker 1: world's history to be born out of a slave revolt,

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Speaker 1: the third oldest republic in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti. She

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Speaker 1: has been neglected, she has been trampled on, she has

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Speaker 1: been ignored. Her people have been downtrodden and oppressed, and

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Speaker 1: now Haiti will be a threat to stability everywhere in

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Speaker 1: the Western Hemisphere. The Biden administration has some time. This

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Speaker 1: is another crisis that's coming down the tracks. In a

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Speaker 1: few months from now, the focus on America's broken immigration

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Speaker 1: system won't just be about the Mexican border. It will

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Speaker 1: become much broader than that, because what's playing out has

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Speaker 1: a very predictable end and a tragic one. The truth

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Speaker 1: of the matter is the United States of America cannot

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Speaker 1: sit idly by and allow people by the thousands to

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Speaker 1: drown in the Caribbean as they do in the Mediterranean.

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Speaker 1: We cannot, we must not. Thank you for listening to

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