WSJ takes Clinton to task on Honduras

OPINION: "Hillary's Honduras Obsession," by Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal, 21 September 2009.

MAO'G, who;s got a very sharp tongue to go with her very sharp mind and deep knowledge of the region, really dismantles Clinton here.

The U.S. State Dept. saying up front that we won't accept the outcome of the Nov election was--IMHO--really stupid.

Here's the Congressional Research Service's official review of the facts:

Available sources indicate that the judicial and legislative branches applied constitutional and statutory law in the case against President Zelaya in a manner that was judged by the Honduran authorities from both branches of the government to be in accordance with the Honduran legal system.

Our stance emboldened Zelaya toward his current machinations today--holed up in the Brazilian embassy in the capital, claiming torture and a bunch of other BS.

As usual, left to its own devices, State proves itself strategically dim.

Comments

[Petrer]

I know more than most people on the region, and reading the AP and my local newspaper, I would really have sympathy for Zelaya if I didn't know much about the region. Now, is this a bias of omission or commission? or it is just that journalists for local newspapers and the AP do not go into detail? I really don't want to say it is a left wing bias (I would really like to - with my long held resentment of leftists in the region) but still, I really don't know.

[Michal Shapiro]

Okay, I have to ask. WHY are we taking this position? To make Chavez happy? I mean, what's in it for us to be messing with Honduras this way?It all seems so clear cut-- they had a constitutional right to oust the guy. Someone please edify me.