Keep in mind that Gaza is inching toward the $1 billion mark in new State Department assistance. Because apparently Hamas is more legitimate than the duly elected and appointed legislative and judicial branches of Hondorus. Obviously:
The Obama administration on Thursday cut all non-humanitarian aid to Honduras over the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya, making permanent a temporary suspension of U.S. aid imposed after he was deposed in June. The State Department made the announcement as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was meeting with Zelaya. Spokesman Ian Kelly did not say how much assistance would be cut but officials have said previously that more than $200 million is at stake. Kelly said it affected “a broad range of assistance to the government of Honduras.”
“The Secretary of State has made the decision, consistent with U.S. legislation, recognizing the need for strong measures in light of the continued resistance to the adoption of the San Jose Accord by the de facto regime and continuing failure to restore democratic, constitutional rule to Honduras,” Kelly said in a statement. The San Jose accord, brokered by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, aims to return Zelaya to power with limited authority until elections now set for November. But Zelaya’s replacement, Roberto Micheletti, has refused to accept it.
It’s too bad for Micheletti that he isn’t an intransigent genocidal lunatic. If he blew up some schoolchildren or threatened to wipe out a state, he’d have State’s academic and journalistic enablers producing mountains of pro-engagement papers. Instead he’s got Foggy Bottom officials condemning his Presidency as a “thug regime” a few months after they reflexively sucked up to actual Iranian thugs who were killing people in the streets.
How soon before the Obama administration is issuing visas to Cuba but not to Honduras?
References:
* US cuts aid to Honduras in support of ex-leader [AP]
* Unreal… US Official Condemns Honduran "Thug Regime"– Compares President Micheletti to Napoleon [Gateway Pundit]
* Awesome: State Publicly Reassures Iranian Diplomats They’re Still Invited To July 4th Parties [MR]
* US Embassy in Honduras to stop issuing most visas [AP]
Previously:
* Liberal Activism In Academia And Beyond
* Prominent Jewish Democrats Double Down On Obama. Unpersuasively.
* Obama Flip-Flops: I’m Now Supporting Zelaya Again Because My Critics Are Hypocritical Or Something
