Honduras update
Could it be that Obama blinked? But if he finally has retreated from his former abominable position on Honduras, he’s kept awfully mum about it.
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Could it be that Obama blinked? But if he finally has retreated from his former abominable position on Honduras, he’s kept awfully mum about it.
Obama’s policies towards Honduras and Israel were so juvenile and inane that they served to diminish his stature among those in the world with gray matter between their ears. He is getting out of his Honduran policy by seemingly creating an agreement to form a power sharing agreement that will not fly. It’s hard to undo stupidity.
His policy towards Israel did the impossible. It united the country behind Netanyahu. It evened silenced the left in Israel. The way out of this mess is to just let things slide but Hillary is now floundering. Arent’t these supposed to be the smart people.
The phone call to Poland and Czechoslovakia in the middle of the night brought forth images of how Hitler conducted foreign policy, with midnight phone calls larded with threats. It was made on the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Poland in 1939 and, since it was the only late night call made by this administration, the timing of the call was intended to add something to the message. I think of it as evil.
It might have been a feint to appeal to the leftist trending Latin Americans and their regimes, with the intent all along to not cross the line. It might have been plain incompetence, with a quiet retreat. It might have been an initial move in solidarity with Obama’s true inclinations, followed by a quiet backtrack when wiser heads prevailed.
Whatever the motivation, they had the sense to make the backtracking as low key as possible.
Go to comment # 4 It ain’t so hunky dory in Central America. Click on the link in the comment.
Chavez is always pressing. So he lost in Honduras. He will have a better chance in El Salvador, because the FMLN is much more competent than “all hat and no cattle” Mel Zelaya.
Chavez is the heart of the problem. Remove him and the Communists will scurry all the way back to Cuba. Only problem is that we have a president who doesn’t have the nerve to spotlight the harm Chavez is doing to peace in Central America.
This is very peculiar.
I wonder if Chavez’ meddling in Honduras backfired, and basically his puppet ended up with a snowball’s chance in hell of keeping the office once he got back in.
I really don’t think any nation likes to have another so blatantly meddling in their internal affairs, and while I’m sure Bush would have been targeted for a lot of criticism over the past few years from anyone in South America – a lot of South Americans may be revising their opinions of Bush given how crudely Chavez and Obama both tried to strongarm Honduras.
Public support for Zelaya in Honduras may have really blown up in Chavez’ face.
The other possibility, and it’s a wild long shot, is that the congress critter holding up some appointments MAY have actually achieved something.
Obama has such a thin skin, perhaps he put more importance on successfully emplacing his own people into government office than he did on helping his soulmate in Venezuela?
My money is betting that the Honduran public reacted quite strongly however to external manipulating, and this is the reason this pull back is happening.
This Obama screw-up is totally off the radar in Germany. Occasionally, you get a mention about the coup, but you’ll never hear anything that would scratch at his image of competence.
burning the candle at both ends.
or dipping your net left first, then right…
in this way, you capture the people paying attention at the first point… the left.. they go to sleep, and later you swing the other side, and now you have a REASONABLE ARGUMENT for either side of the constituency.
its called controlling both sides of an issue.
or to put it in soviet methodology
thesis and antithesis moves to a new synthesis..
and since socialists cheat, they seek to control both the thesis and antithesis so that the new synthesis is always socialism, left, totalitarian, etc.
its lke watching people try to figure out a game from watching from a balcony…
without anyone describing the rules and plays.. they make up all kinds of inane things, build their own reality, and then start making sweeping judgements.
want to see how bad we as people are at this. just get a trained sociologist to watch a game they dont know the rules of from a distance and then work out the rules and such. thats how bad they do when its the best doing it.