Article: USING GRENADA AS STANDARD FOR HAITI SUCCESS.(MAIN)

Byline: Cal Thomas

President Clinton has compared his greatest foreign policy triumph to the 1983 action in Grenada, which is interesting, because members of his party and many liberal media commentators ridiculed Ronald Reagan's successful effort to rescue American medical students and Grenadians from the clutches of disciples of Fidel Castro and communism. Critics faulted President Reagan for sending ``too many'' troops into a tiny nation for such a small job.

If Grenada is the standard, a brief review of history will help us judge the eventual success or failure of the Clinton-Carter-Nunn-Powell effort in Haiti.

Following a military coup ...

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