Man kan roligt sige, at Obama administrationen har fejlbedømt situationen i Honduras. Mildest talt. USA Kongres jurister har undersøgt grundlaget for afsættelsen af Zelaya og erklæret, at den er i overensstemmelse med landets forfatningen. Men det er også udryk for manglende dømmekraft. WSJ havde en leder lørdag (31/10) under overskriften "Honduras 1, Hilary 0" om udfaldet. Og søndag (1/11) havde udenrigsredaktøren for WSJ en ny leder, som ikke lagde fingrene imellem:
"The need to dictate to Hondurans how to run their country has been the problem from the start. The moment the Honduran Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Mr. Zelaya in June for organizing mob violence and attempting to overthrow the constitution Mr. Llorens [USA ambassadør i Honduras] anointed himself colonial viceroy in charge of imposing U.S. will. Plenty of Molotov-hurling leftists also took Mr. Zelaya's side. But Mr. Llorens staked out a position for the U.S., defending the legitimacy of the erratic former president. The U.S. ambassador used every weapon he could lay his hands on to try to force the country to restore Mr. Zelaya to power.
This violated Honduran sovereignty. But Mr. Llorens's boss back home, Barack Obama, seemed more interested in appeasing U.S. enemies than standing by friends, or even sticking to his pledge not to meddle in other countries' affairs. Mr. Chávez and Fidel Castro were supporting Mr. Zelaya, and Mr. Obama apparently wanted to be part of the gang.Det bliver spændende at se hvordan den cubanske redaktion på DR1 Orientering vil udlægge dette. Lad mig give et bud: Det er en højreorienteret konspiration bestående af rige godsejere i Honduras, kupmagere i hæren, den katolske kirke og ondsindede lobbyister i Washington, som arbejder for Bill Clinton.....
Clearly no one in Washington expected it to be so hard to break the will of Hondurans. That effort became even more embarrassing when zelayistas mounted a campaign of terror, kidnapping and murdering Honduran authorities and their relatives. There were at least three such incidents in two weeks. The terrorists were also sabotaging the country's electricity grid. To avoid further taint, the U.S. sent a delegation to strike the compromise reached late Thursday.
The spin is that Mr. Zelaya will return to power. But the Honduran Congress will decide that, using opinions from the Supreme Court, the attorney general and other legal experts. Since it was the court and Congress that threw Mr. Zelaya out, this is positive."
I øvrigt må man sige, at årets modtager af Nobels fredspris virkelig udretter store udenrigspolitiske mirakler. Udover den udenrigspolitiske succes i Honduras har Obama lige sat hele sin prestige ind på at få et omvalg i Afghanistans præsident-valg mellem de to førende kandidater, præsident Hamid Karzai og oppositionens kandidat Abdullah Abdullah efter omfattende korruption og valgsvindel, hvorefter modkandidaten trækker sig, fordi han ikke har tillid til valgkommissionen. Og nu venter amerikanerne så, at Obama vil beslutte sig for at sende flere amerikanske soldater til Afghanistan, hvor de risikere at dø i kamp for, hvad de fleste må opfatte som et rent pseudo-demokrati med en præsident uden et egentlig mandat.
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