We're supporting - for reasons that aren't completely clear to me - a deposed Honduran President. His judiciary deprived him of office, with - as I understand it - due process. I'd love to hear why we're supporting him if someone would care to explain it. Especially in light of his recent comments:
It's been 89 days since Manuel Zelaya was booted from power. He's sleeping on chairs, and he claims his throat is sore from toxic gases and "Israeli mercenaries'' are torturing him with high-frequency radiation.
"We are being threatened with death,'' he said in an interview with The Miami Herald, adding that mercenaries were likely to storm the embassy where he has been holed up since Monday and assassinate him.Why does it increasingly feel like we're living in the Onion's world?
"I prefer to march on my feet than to live on my knees before a military dictatorship,'' Zelaya said in a series of back-to-back interviews.
Zelaya was deposed at gunpoint on June 28 and slipped back into his country on Monday, just two days before he was scheduled to speak before the United Nations. He sought refuge at the Brazilian Embassy, where Zelaya said he is being subjected to toxic gases and radiation that alter his physical and mental state.
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Theory #1- There are too many evil fascists in Congress opposing Obama care to waste resources internationally. Hence, we must find our allies where we can. Even sleeping on chairs in the Brazilian embassy.
honestly what did you expect from Team Obama? Those of us who did not get swept up in hopenchangium realized that simply by looking at the company he kept he was utterly incompetent to hold the office of the Presidency and that his foreign policy would make Jimmy Carter look like Kissinger.
Hmmm a half term Senator whose executive experience was running the Harvard Law Review for a semester or two appears to be utterly out of his depth as Commander in Chief, let alone ruler of the free world. Who'd a thunk it?
Oh wait, I'm a racist for pointing this out.
What keeps nagging at me is the out-there idea that Obama is doing a bit of projecting here. There's zero evidence for it, except that supporting this guy makes no sense now and never has. (It would be one thing if there had been a coup, but as you pointed out, all the legalities were followed.)
I am deeply displeased by this administration.
Mark, Obama is an imperialist, meddling in the affairs of other countries without cause. But he is a left wing imperialist and those are generally judged to be doing God's work. If there was a God.
I'm skeptical about this, because I listened to Gaddafi's entire speech and he never mentioned this. God knows he mentioned everything else: "What happened to Patrice Lumumba, and what is the deal with Britney's hair? We must investigate this," etc., etc., etc.
As for Obama, I notice that he refers to Zelaya as "Mel Zelaya" in his official statements. This is a comrade thing - us bourgeois types just don't get it.
BTW, regarding that official statement from Obama: "Any existing tensions and disputes must be resolved peacefully through dialogue free from any outside interference."
Does Obama think that some foreign party arranged Mel's ouster? Like Leon Panetta, or sinister Levantines?
I guess openly backing one of the parties to the dispute and denying diplomatic recognition and visas to Honduras doesn't count as "outside interference".
Obama likes Chavez, Chavez backs Zelaya. It's just that simple, as befits a President as simple as this one.
Also, it doesn't take long studying what there is of Obama's public record to see that the whole concept of "rule of law" utterly escapes him, which makes the ouster of Zelaya incomprehensible to him.
The very best spin that can be reasonably put on it is that Obama doesn't want to disagree with the OAS. I don't think that's reality, but it's the fig leaf he'll deploy when the chips are down.
If these are the comments we get, keep him in the embassy for a few more weeks, let people interview the guy, and publicize the interviews.
In other words, let the situation be resolved peacefully - through monologue.