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U.S. HONDURAN POLICY - GOOFY AND NON-TRANSPARENT

Below are two posts from NRO's the Corner that provide commentary on the U.S.'s disgraceful handling of the Honduran situation.  Both will prove more than insightful -- and quite worrisome, at least to me.

Andy McCarthy - More Stonewalling from the Most Transparent Administration in History

Ed Whelan - Stonewalling and Harold Koh   

HONDURAS IN CRISIS, WITH A HAND FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA

At Hugh Hewitt's blogsite, "Jude" writes wisely, if dishearteningly, about Obama's stupid handling of the Honduras crisis.  Is "stupid" the right word?  No. Treacherous would be better.  Jude writes:

Yesterday brought the news from Honduras that ousted - and now former - President Manuel Zalaya had found his way back into the country, holing up in the Brazilian Embassy.  Honduras is now poised for violence, I fear.  By encouraging the return of Zalaya, our government has encouraged instability in Honduras.  Calls for "calm" from this administration are pretty bold now, considering how they've contributed to the trouble, first by not

THE HONDURAN SITUATION -- AND AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT WHO SIDES WITH A WOULD-BE DICTATOR

Why does Obama meddle only when the pro-democracy side is winning?
(Image from Investor Business Daily's Michael Ramirez)

Updates 7/3/09 - Christian Science Monitor: "A coup in Honduras? Nonsense."   Keep up to date by regularly checking news and commentary at www.freehonduras.com

- (Original Post) - There's no lack of sane coverage of the Honduran situation which makes one wonder what gives with Obama and his State Department.  What are they inhaling?  Click here for an important Wall Street Journal article, note the comprehensive and excellent editorial in Investor's Business Daily, and turn to Fausta's Blog for details.  (HT: Wintery Knight Blog for the link to Fausta and the cartoon above).  Charles Krauthammer expostulated against Obama last night on Fox News:

Well, the president has a knack for getting all of these big decisions wrong. Two weeks ago, he refuses to meddle in a country where peaceful demonstrators are getting shot by a theocratic dictatorship. He doesn't want to choose sides.

 

And now he's eager to meddle on behalf of the president in Honduras who is a Chavez wannabe, who is strong-arming his way to a referendum—that has been declared illegal by his Supreme Court—as a way to...establish a constituent assembly which will establish a new constitution, which will be a Chavez-like dictatorship.