It’s name is Honduras. It’s tiny and impoverished. It hasn’t had an easy time becoming a democracy. It’s president was recently thrown out in a “coup.”
Well, that’s what President Obama and a bunch of his South American thug-buddies say. And Obama’s sticking to his story, come hell or the Honduran Constitution or responsible legal interpretations of it by people who, you know, have actually read it and have determined that the ouster was legal. Those interpretations have been published.
Well, never mind, the President has his own legal opinion, written at the State Department. It hasn’t been published. It’s secret, as if written in the invisible ink that has become a hallmark of this administration’s “transparency.”
U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, went to Honduras on a fact-finding mission. He published his impressions over the weekend in The Wall Street Journal.
The U.S. Ambassador to Honduras urged Demint to read the State Department legal analysis. He tried, before and after his trip. His request has been refused. Did we mention that he’s on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee? Did we mention that President Obama and his South American thug-buddies have not exactly contributed to the internal peace of Honduras, following the ouster?
Honduras is a tiny country, from which a major U.S. foreign policy blunder is emerging. Its impact on the world? Not so much. It’s impact on the history of U.S. foreign policy regarding South America? Add it to a long list of sad and sordid tales. This one is President Obama’s.
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