As Chavez threatens military action against Honduras, and his fellow Latin American leftists, the Presidents of Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and (of course) Cuba, demand the forced return of the deposed Chavez-wannabe Zelaya against the wishes of the country’s constitutional government, the Obama administration continues its track record of foreign policy mistakes. I posted about the administration’s strange deference to Iran’s government in contrast with its willingness to meddle in Honduran affairs. This article from National Review reviews the evidence of a Chavez-led and Obama-enabled subversion of Honduras that the civil and military institutions of that country eventually resisted. In other places, people have asked why Obama so insists on abetting anti-American dictators, when, to do so, he has to contradict principles and policies he claims to follow, such as the hallowed principle of non-intervention in other countries’ affairs. The only unifying thread is the observation made by one commentator that, deep down, Obama is ashamed of what the U.S. stands for, echoing the sentiment so undiplomatically (but forthrightly) expressed by his wife during the campaign and reflected in the Obama World Apology Tour. Thus, he hides behind and bends to anyone who is seen in his circle as challenging American power and place in the world.
Admirably, so far at least, tiny and impoverished Honduras is doing what the bumbling nominal superpower to its north, the United States, is afraid to do, namely, stand up to Chavez’s imperialist subversion of other countries (as his previous military and financial support of Colombia’s FARC rebels) and to the anti-American and Iran-connected Leftist ring of thugs who subvert their own countries’ political institutions and their citizens’ civil rights.
While Obama, Chavez, and the rest of their ideological compadres call the Honduran action a coup, but fail to characterize the Iranian “election” as a coup or even as fraudulent, some Iranian politicians and mullahs are more robust.
Cartoonist Michael Ramirez has it down.
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