Sep 4 2009

Obama’s Honduran mistake

At first it appeared that Barack Obama and his foreign policy team might be having a hard time distinguishing America’s friends from America’s enemies. With their treatment of Israel and Honduras, however, one can safely infer that they have a pretty good bead on the friend/enemy distinction. The problem is that in many [...]

Jul 19 2009

Reuters Still Stuck on "Coup"-pid

I reckon the antique media still thinks they’re living back in the days of “Uncle Walter.”
Reading this Reuters story about “talks” between negotiators for deposed leftist wannabe-dictator and the legitimate government of Honduras is a little like reading Pravda: It all seems perfectly sane, perfectly rational — but originating from a long time ago [...]

Jul 5 2009

High Noon in Honduras?

Former Honduras President Manuel Zelaya says he is getting on an airplane to return to Tegucigalpa, accompanied, apparently, by the President of the U.N. General Assembly and a group of journalists. The interim government of Honduras has ordered the military and police not to let any airplane carrying Zelaya land.

If turned away, it will [...]