Obama Hides Shame by Revoking Visas?
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An incisive blogger with fascinating articles, Ulf Erlingsson has a plausible explanation on why the US has revoked five more visas to Honduran government officials on the eve of the Inauguration of president-elect Porfirio Lobo.
According to him, it is to hide Obama’s shame. Are there any alternate explanations?
A new development: President-Elect Lobo has promised to grant Manuel Zelaya safe transit from Honduras to the Dominican Republic on January 27, which explains why Hugo Llorens and Lobo travelled there yesterday. He will be received as a “guest”, not as a seeker of political asylum. Zelaya is currently a “guest” of Brazil at their embassy in Tegucigalpa. I smell United States involvement in this. The fact that they met outside Honduras seems to be a way to hide the serious breach of sovereignty in their meddling. Why not meet in DC and be done with it?
The Dominican Republic is {NOT} a member of ALBA (the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas), the group of nations cooperating with Hugo Chavez. {I was corrected, thanks Steve. The member of ALBA is called Dominica, a much smaller nation that the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.}
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The generals want to fight in court. However, the public would be very unhappy to see the generals face the court while the former President gets to stay as a guest in another country.
Since the generals were willing to break law to protect the country, they would not want themselves to be the source of insecurity.
Considering these points, I feel this is an attempt to pressure the generals to accept amnesty.
I am afraid this is no longer about President Obama’s shame. President Obama is the new kid on the block who has no loyal group of his own. He makes mistakes due to his lack of experience. The mistakes weaken his position and the various factions are now competing to show who can fix better. These factions would not allow him to come clean until their competition is over.
Of course, apologizing will dim President Obama’s chance of becoming an international mediator so I’m not sure whether he has the guts to apologize if he is given the green light.
To be honest, I will feel more comfortable if President Obama is truly in charge of this ugly scheme to hide his mistake. It is easier to fix one person than several factions.
I think Obama will have to take a stand and risk offending people. Being Miss Universe is lovely but doesn’t do anyone any good, regardless of passionate calls for world peace.
Just to clarify: Dominica is the country that is the member of ALBA. It is a tiny island in the Lesser Antilles. That is a different country than the Dominican Republic, which is the eastern half of the same large island as Haiti and which is the country the article refers to as being Zelaya’s destination. It would make more sense for Zelaya to be headed to Dominica, but evidently he is going to the DR, as the article mentions Dr. Leonel Fernández, who is the head of state of the Dominican Republic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivarian_Alliance_for_the_Americas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominica
Thanks Steve, you’re right! I had gone to the ALBA website before posting, to check whether the Dominican Republic was part of ALBA or Petro Caribe, but I thought Dominica was just another name for The Dominican Republic. My bad.
De nada.
By the way, I fully expect Mel to hitch a ride across the border into Haiti with a camera crew to get some video of him handing out bottled water, consoling crying infants, and letting people try on his hat. What better way to rehabilitate his reputation and regain some man-of-the-people cred? He might even offer to fill Haiti’s leadership vacuum: he’s available, has experience operating ethically flexible governments, and should be well rested after laying around the Brazilian embassy the past 7 months.
Hahahaha! yeah, all the leftist bloggers have been highlighting Chavez’s gift of much needed fuel. The truth is that almost all international aid is really an investment in leverage. Since I rebuilt your country, I can tell you how to run it.
I would love to see someone ridicule Zelaya…a punch in the face would get all the liberal media complaining, so why not a pie in the face? I think the only ones who should be getting praise for their work in Haiti are those who were already there helping before the earthquake.