{"id":1249,"date":"2009-10-12T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T13:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2009-10-12T09:34:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T13:34:27","slug":"the-country-the-nobel-peace-prize-committee-forgot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1249\/the-country-the-nobel-peace-prize-committee-forgot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Country the Nobel Peace Prize Committee Forgot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s name is Honduras.\u00a0 It\u2019s tiny and impoverished.\u00a0 It hasn\u2019t had an easy time becoming a democracy.\u00a0 It\u2019s president was recently thrown out in a \u201ccoup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, that\u2019s what President Obama and a bunch of his South American thug-buddies say.\u00a0 And Obama\u2019s 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.\u00a0 Those interpretations have been published.<\/p>\n<p>Well, never mind, the President has his own legal opinion, written at the State Department.\u00a0 It hasn\u2019t been published.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s secret, as if written in the invisible ink that has become a hallmark of this administration\u2019s \u201ctransparency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, went to Honduras on a fact-finding mission.\u00a0 He published <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703298004574459762462353766.html?mod=djemEditorialPage\" target=\"_blank\">his impressions<\/a> over the weekend in <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Ambassador to Honduras urged Demint to read the State Department legal analysis.\u00a0 He tried, before and after his trip.\u00a0 His request has been refused.\u00a0 Did we mention that he\u2019s on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee?\u00a0 Did we mention that President Obama and his South\u00a0 American thug-buddies have not exactly contributed to the internal peace of Honduras, following the ouster?<\/p>\n<p>Honduras is a tiny country, from which a major U.S. foreign policy blunder is emerging.\u00a0 Its impact on the world?\u00a0 Not so much.\u00a0 It\u2019s impact on the history of U.S. foreign policy regarding South America?\u00a0 Add it to a long list of sad and sordid tales.\u00a0 This one is President Obama\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s name is Honduras.\u00a0 It\u2019s tiny and impoverished.\u00a0 It hasn\u2019t had an easy time becoming a democracy.\u00a0 It\u2019s president was recently thrown out in a \u201ccoup.\u201d Well, that\u2019s what President Obama and a bunch of his South American thug-buddies say.\u00a0 And Obama\u2019s sticking to his story, come hell or the Honduran Constitution or responsible legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[171,271,24],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-honduras","tag-jim-demint","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}