So much for refurbishing our image abroad:
Never let it be said that the Obama administration took a defeat graciously. When the Honduran Supreme Court rejected the deal that Costa Rica offered, called the San Jose Accord, that would have reinstated Manuel Zelaya as president, the Obama administration had a choice: allow Honduras to make its own decisions and accept them, or try to pressure Hondurans to bend to American will. Guess which path they chose?
The OAS Foreign Ministers mission is in Honduras seeking support for the San Jose Accord, which would restore the democratic and constitutional order and resolve the political crisis in Honduras. In support of this mission and as a consequence of the de facto regime’s reluctance to sign the San Jose Accord, the U.S. Department of State is conducting a full review of our visa policy in Honduras. As part of that review, we are suspending non-emergency, non-immigrant visa services in the consular section of our embassy in Honduras, effective August 26. We firmly believe a negotiated solution is the appropriate way forward and the San Jose Accord is the best solution.
The White House firmly believes in negotiation rather than law enforcement so much that they will suspend visa services with an American ally in order to enforce a policy cheered by Cuba and Venezuela.
We have to make nice/nice with Venezuela but we’re to be hard-nosed with Honduras? Yep, that is Obama – or, as he’ll certainly be known, Carter II.
This is just idiotic – a democratic ally has used its own, internal political mechanisms to resolve a constitutional crisis and the US response is to demand that this ally violate its internal laws in order to come to a decision favored by our enemies. Just who does Obama think he is? Water-carrier for Chavez, or President of the United States of America? What Honduras did was precisely what we wanted – use democratic means to resolve internal political disputes. For decades, US policy has been to advance just this – now its official US policy to oppose democracy in favor of leftist dictatorship. The “blame America first San Francisco Democrats” of 1984 have returned – and they are in charge of US foreign policy.
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