Dumb Power: Obama seeking a "win" in Honduras

As I have maintained for some time (to invoke an Obama-ism), the administration is seeking a cheap "win" by pushing around the Honduran democracy. So sayeth Mary O'Grady in the WSJ. (h/t to the Thomas Jefferson Club)

O'Grady:

This administration needs a win. Or more accurately, it can't bear another loss right now. Most especially it can't afford to be defeated by the government of a puny Central American country that doesn't seem to know its place in the world and dares to defy the imperial orders of Uncle Sam.

A big question (at least in my mind) is whether Obama pushed this policy, or if some semi-rogue ideological twit in the State Department official was behind this. Probably some of both, but O'Grady's piece is pretty damning of State.

Prominent Hondurans, including leading members of the business community, complain that a State Department official has been pressuring them to push the interim government to accept the return of Mr. Zelaya to power.

When I asked the State Department whether it was employing such dirty tricks a spokeswoman would only say the U.S. has been "encouraging all members of civil society to support the San Jose 'accord'"—which calls for Mr. Zelaya to be restored to power. Perhaps something was lost in the translation but threats to use U.S. power against a small, poor nation hardly qualify as encouragement.

 Oh yeah, and State is twisting arms in Latin America to get other nations on board with the "accord".

"Dumb Power" defined.

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