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Dialogue' Trumps Honduran Law
Investors Business.com ^ | October 30, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

Posted on 10/30/2009 5:43:07 PM PDT by Kaslin

Diplomacy: The restoration of a president with dictatorial dreams in Honduras is being touted by the administration as a triumph of "dialogue." In truth, it's just old-fashioned yanqui interventionism.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hailed Thursday night's agreement in Tegucigalpa as "a restoration of the constitutional order," and praised it highly.

"I cannot think of another example of a country in Latin America that, having suffered a rupture of its democratic and constitutional order, overcame such a crisis through negotiation and dialogue."

What worked here, though, wasn't dialogue, but U.S. diplomatic muscle. A last-minute mission from Assistant Secretary of State Tom Shannon, National Security Council representative for Western Hemisphere affairs Dan Restrepo and Shannon's deputy Craig Kelly somehow persuaded both the government of Roberto Micheletti and ousted President Mel Zelaya to sign an accord restoring Zelaya and to ensure that Nov. 29 elections be recognized.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: chavista; communists; dictator; diplomacy; hillary; hillaryclinton; honduran; honduras; manuelzelaya; marxists; micheletti; obama; porfiriolobo; zelaya

1 posted on 10/30/2009 5:43:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 10/30/2009 5:44:29 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

The reverse of Reagan...he freed countries from communism, we enslave countries into communism.

Unbelievable. It’s like all of the radical Leftists from the ‘60’s are taking over.

Ed


3 posted on 10/30/2009 5:48:49 PM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: Kaslin

Chavez’s goons (Hillary, Obama and Carter) will make sure there is no election. This guy will be president for life. Obama will be pleased to see how easily a Constitution is Thwarted.


4 posted on 10/30/2009 6:15:27 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obama: Grasping at Straw Men _ Not a Public Option It's a government mandate.)
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To: Kaslin

Unspeakably wrong.

I suspect it will not last.


5 posted on 10/30/2009 6:17:29 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Kaslin

“a restoration of the constitutional order,”

Cheap Democratic politico Clinton lying again.


6 posted on 10/30/2009 6:24:31 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: Kaslin

They already had an election! Their Constitution allows for term limits. The incumbent should go away quietly.

Our government is helping the ex-incumbent get back in office? Total utter crap!


7 posted on 10/30/2009 6:31:15 PM PDT by RebelTXRose
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To: don-o

Honduras ping


8 posted on 10/30/2009 9:24:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (Democracy sucks!)
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To: Kaslin

“Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!”


9 posted on 10/30/2009 9:31:52 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: popdonnelly
Cheap Democratic politico Clinton lying again.

It's a chorus of red frogs. PBS Now host David Brancaccio, a card-carrying Lefty, was subbing for Daljit Dhaliwal on ITV/PBS's Worldfocus late-nite international news program.

Brancaccio had on a left-wing NGO's duckspeaker to talk about Honduras, and both of them repeated several times the Red lie about the Honduran supreme court and legislature having launched a "coup d'etat" (both of them very carefully used this term), and both of them slanted the story toward would-be caudillo Zelaya, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, and the Obama Party Line.

It was pure lying prolefeed for the ignorant.

10 posted on 10/31/2009 2:38:17 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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Jimmy Carter hands Iran over to the radical Islamists and Barak Obama hands Honduras over to the Marxists. What’s next? American embassy stormed in Tegucigalpa. Captives held for 444 days.


11 posted on 10/31/2009 6:14:36 AM PDT by kg_mobster
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