Rick Moran (credit where due) has up an excellent piece about Honduras’ election of Porfirio Lobo, a conservative, to be their President. It concludes this way:
The American people will not be informed of this pitiful about face by our government. But the Honduran people don’t need our State Department’s blessing or condemnation to know what they have accomplished this day.
It’s really amazing that it took the administration this long to come around to the obvious conclusion that Zelaya’s deposing was constitutional and brought about by his repeated violations of the Honduran Constitution. Zelaya’s performance in the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, which harbored him when he snuck (I prefer it, don’t care) back into the country, was a turning point. There, he claimed that he was being subject to radiation beams and hallucinogenic gases provided to the Honduran military by the United States. Senator DeMint and his fact-finders, despite John Kerry’s attempt to block them, also managed to get on the ground and discover that the general Honduran view was quite different from what was being expressed in the MSM.
As Rick points out, Brazil’s attitude in this instance (not to mention Spain’s) has been particularly disheartening. Obama shoveled hundreds of millions of US dollars into Brazil’s offshore drilling projects–which, if I were an environmentalist, I would claim threatens biodiversity in a way that no US project could. Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad has been touring South America, celebrating connections with such Zelaya supporters as Hugo Chavez, and talking about exporting enriched uranium to some of their allies. What Ahmadinejad intends to do is to open an American front, Marxist, Jihadist, whatever, against the US to counter the US presence abutting Iran in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Taliban control of opium production mirrors the control of drug-lord militia/Marxists in Central and South America. Bolivia, having accepted aid from Ahmadinejad, has instructed nurses at the benefitting hospital that they must wear the hijab, as that was a condition.
Meanwhile, the Obama Administration coddles Cuba, despite their ridiculous war games against a US invasion, coordinated with Hugo’s hysterical rantings about a Columbian threat to Venezuela.
None of this diplomatic clusterfark has anything to do with Iran’s announcement that they will open another 10 uranium enrichment facilities, I am sure.
UPDATE: Drew M. at AoSHQ
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“What Ahmadinejad intends to do is to open an American front, Marxist, Jihadist, whatever, against the US to counter the US presence abutting Iran in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Taliban control of opium production mirrors the control of drug-lord militia/Marxists in Central and South America.”
Whoa now, what’cha claimin’? If Obama is a Marxist then why would these “Marxist, Jihadist, whatever” desire a front against him?
Besides, Venezuela and Bolivia are proud, venerated democracies. Remembering what Bush the George said about democracies, that they don’t war on each other, most especially against us I’d assume.
Lastly, wouldn’t it be the Uribe-controlled right-wing death squads who mostly control Colombia’s cocaine trade nowadays?
You need to listen to some good jazz and relax, Dan. Gimme a terrorist fist bump, podnuh. We’re on the same team, remembrio necessito amigo.
I think it has a point: if we can’t prove Obambi’s nation of birth, how are we to discern his political affiliation?
Besides, Venezuela and Bolivia are proud, venerated democracies.”
Sure, that’s why O!’s bff Chavez is threatening to nationalize tha bamks; like all venerated democracies do…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091129/wl_nm/us_venezuela_banks_chavez_1
Of course, their lying, since yahoo is a major bastion of wingnuttia…
Bank of England, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sberbank, Crédit Lyonnais, Bank of India, I can think of some nationalized scenarios, past and present, in venerated democracies.
All in semi-socialist, or full on socialist countries…
It has no place in a truly free society; neither does Marxism…
Someone should smack you in your cheesy birther hole, Eno.
Fist bump! Gimme!
hahahahaha
Of course, whore will never be the someone.
Oh, and why are you dragging my name through the mud over at SEK’s thor? Feel like you ned to go somewhere that I might not rebut you?
At least happyfeet stood up for me…
I thought you wanted to be a big-time r-wingy blog player, like Stacey McCain, Bob.
Now you have some racist street-cred.
Where’s my “thank you,” that’s what I wanna know.
Conservative and racist are not necessarily convergent ideologies…
Besides, I’ve warned you about wearing out that race card…
In your case, it’s definitely dog-eared…
Libtard and racist, OTOH, approach unity….
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/world/americas/30uruguay.html
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