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Mar 11, 12:45 PM (ET)

PARIS (Reuters) - The United States will take charge next week of an interim multinational force in Haiti that is charged with restoring order to the Caribbean nation, an official at French military headquarters said Thursday.
U.S., French and Chilean troops are already coordinating operations in Haiti, but as of next week they will be officially organized under U.S. command, with different contingents taking charge of different sectors of the country, press officer Catherine Bellis said.

France will contribute between 800 and 1,000 troops to the force, and a Frenchman will be second-in-command, Bellis said. Troops from Canada and Chile would also join the force, which is expected to number less than 5,000 in total.

"The Americans will take command at the beginning of next week," Bellis said.

The interim force, authorized by the United Nations, is set to last 90 days, after which a longer-term U.N. stabilization force will take over.

The U.N. Security Council approved the deployment of the force to Haiti after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide left the impoverished country Feb. 29 in the face of an armed rebellion.

We really need to keep that island stable. After all any spillover into the Dominican Rep. could cause a destablization that could affect the future pool of major league pitchers. That would be bad.
Overthrowing Aristide = good
Affecting young major leaguers in the Dominican = bad

IMHO

By this time tomorrow I shall have gained either a pearage or Westminster Abbey........Nelson

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YGBSM !

The French should be required to stabilize that country, they made theat mess in the first place.