Thursday, July 30, 2009

An Administration in Denial

The U.S. has suspended the visas of four Honduran diplomats for no obvious reason except the desire that their view of the perfectly legal removal of a proto-dictator who was violating the Honduran constitution not be widely discussed in the United States. At least that's how the action appears to be playing out. SEE IBD ARTICLE
There has been plenty of coverage of this issue in this blog and the bottom line is simply. The Honduran government removed legitimately and with full due process a chief executive who was in violation of the Honduran constitution and who refused to be corrected so that after roughly three attempts to get him to desist (note the first violation would have been enough to remove him) was finally removed from office by the congress and the supreme court using hte military as their agent to enforce the order.
The OAS, the U.N., and the United States are all interfering with the legal and appropriate sovereignty of a democratic state and imposing sanctions. The only construction of our action is that the Obama administration is unwilling to admit mistakes, just as the president has behaved in the Cambridge police affair when he prejudged the issue and then refused to recognize he had made a mistake, here the same scenario is playing out. Get over it and normalize relations with Honduras. This is outrageous.

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