Sometimes, the whole world prefers a lie to the truth. The White House, the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and much of the media have condemned the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya this past weekend as a coup d'état.
That is nonsense.
In fact, what happened here is nothing short of the triumph of the rule of law.
Read it all, as the saying goes.
Honduras, after the so-called coup, planned to hold their presidential elections as scheduled, but may offer early elections to get the world to back off from their outrageous demands to reinstate Zelaya:
Honduras' interim leader said he was open to early elections if it resolves an impasse with the world community, as a top diplomat headed to the Central American nation to demand he restore the president ousted by a coup.
With time running out on a Saturday deadline by the Organization of American States to return President Manuel Zelaya to power, OAS chief Jose Miguel Insulza was to arrive in Honduras Friday to push for his reinstatement.
Insulza said he will meet with leaders of Honduras' Supreme Court and Congress — institutions that approved Sunday's coup — "basically to clarify exactly what our position is."
But he has said he will not meet with members of Roberto Micheletti's military-backed government, to avoid legitimizing it. It was unclear if Insulza would meet with U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens during the visit.
Micheletti said Insulza would be welcome in Honduras, and "If he wants to talk with me, I'll receive him gladly."
Asked later by a reporter if he would be willing to move up presidential elections from their scheduled date of Nov. 29, Micheletti said the idea was acceptable to him as long as it is done within the framework of the law.
I have no idea if this is even lawful. Micheletti says they will look into this. It seems somehow quite fitting that Honduras might be compelled to violate their own election laws to hold early elections, if that will satisfy the sainted international community.
I've tempered by criticism of the Obama administration given that on many areas of foreign policy, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and intelligence, he has continued the path set by President Bush. Yes, I worried about his muddled view on the Russian invasion of Georgia last summer, but he was a candidate then. I hope for the best.
Defense spending, missile defense, sucking up to Latin American thugs, and relations with Iran and the Moslem world in general, with the assumption that we are in the wrong, have annoyed and worried me; but I've hoped our president would learn his lesson on these matters without America having to pay too much of a price.
Even failure to emphatically support the pro-freedom demonstrators in Iran was at least somewhat excusable given the complexities, as far as I was concerned, even though I strongly opposed the assumption that we needed to negotiate with the untrustworthy and evil mullah regime.
But the Zelaya Affair has simply revolted me. It is a small and easily digested test of whether we are even capable of identifying the good guys. The administration has failed completely, mistaking passing the twisted global test for what is right and what is in our national interest.
As I've mentioned before, if we reward our enemies and punish our friends, we'll have fewer of the latter and more of the former.
Have a lovely friggin' day.
