I Can Haz Diplomacy? (Honduras Edition)

4:20 pm EST October 30th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 6 Comments

If this had happened under the watch of the previous president, we wouldn’t have a diplomatic agreement in Honduras, we would be dealing with a Honduran insurgency…

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6 Responses to “I Can Haz Diplomacy? (Honduras Edition)”

  1. jr says:
    October 30, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    Roberto Micheletti’s Pinochet act was getting stale

  2. Chris K. says:
    October 30, 2009 at 6:03 pm

    Oliver,

    Bush was all kinds of awful but how can you say that under Bush’s watch this would be an insurgency?

    You think Bush would have sent troops?

    C’mon.

  3. william says:
    October 30, 2009 at 7:37 pm

    Siding with dictators and wanna-be dictators seems par for the course for this administration.

  4. daniel rotter says:
    October 30, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    No conservative, of course, ever “sided” with Pinochet (dictator).

  5. El Cid says:
    October 31, 2009 at 8:47 am

    It’ll take a long time, but hopefully someday the Honduran people will succeed in substantively dismantling their repressive and death-squad riddled military which has repeatedly carried out coups d’etat throughout Honduras’ history; however, this clear setback for a military-backed coup is certainly a helpful step forward in halting the Honduran legacy of a “thin veneer” of a civilian government atop an ever watchful military establishment.

  6. Amused Observer says:
    October 31, 2009 at 10:28 am

    Honduras did the right thing to prevent the possibility of a El Presidente for life. This was hardly the military coup that Ollie and the others posting here are portraying it to be. Venezuela not too long ago had a president bound by term limits, but no more. Honduras was facing the same sort of threat that Venezuela faced with Chavez. They dealt with it through the appropriate legal channels and were rebuffed by the likes of Chavez and Obama.

    Obama differs from Chavez in degree not kind. It was surprising to see him back Zelaya but he did. Obama’s forign policy has a noticible slant towards backing left wing socialists like Venezuela’s Chavez in his efforts to turn Honduras and backing away from supporting emerging democracies such as Poland. The same patterns emerge in his policies towards the mideast. Iran will get the bomb under his watch unless Israel takes the direct action we are too chickenshit to pursue.