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Caribbean-Latin America
Honduras defends Its democracy
Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton object.

Hugo Chávez's coalition-building efforts suffered a setback yesterday when the Honduran military sent its president packing for abusing the nation's constitution. It seems that President Mel Zelaya miscalculated when he tried to emulate the success of his good friend Hugo in reshaping the Honduran Constitution to his liking. But Honduras is not out of the Venezuelan woods yet. Yesterday the Central American country was being pressured to restore the authoritarian Mr. Zelaya by the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hillary Clinton and, of course, Hugo himself. The Organization of American States, having ignored Mr. Zelaya's abuses, also wants him back in power. It will be a miracle if Honduran patriots can hold their ground.

That Mr. Zelaya acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by its Congress. But Mr. Zelaya declared the vote on his own and had Mr. Chávez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela. The Supreme Court ruled his referendum unconstitutional, and it instructed the military not to carry out the logistics of the vote as it normally would do. The top military commander, Gen. Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, told the president that he would have to comply. Mr. Zelaya promptly fired him. The Supreme Court ordered him reinstated. Mr. Zelaya refused.

Calculating that some critical mass of Hondurans would take his side, the president decided he would run the referendum himself. So on Thursday he led a mob that broke into the military installation where the ballots from Venezuela were being stored and then had his supporters distribute them in defiance of the Supreme Court's order. The attorney general had already made clear that the referendum was illegal, and he further announced that he would prosecute anyone involved in carrying it out. Yesterday, Mr. Zelaya was arrested by the military and is now in exile in Costa Rica.

It remains to be seen what Mr. Zelaya's next move will be. It's not surprising that chavistas throughout the region are claiming that he was victim of a military coup. They want to hide the fact that the military was acting on a court order to defend the rule of law and the constitution, and that the Congress asserted itself for that purpose, too. Mrs. Clinton has piled on as well. Yesterday she accused Honduras of violating "the precepts of the Interamerican Democratic Charter" and said it "should be condemned by all." Fidel Castro did just that. Mr. Chávez pledged to overthrow the new government.

Honduras is fighting back by strictly following the constitution. The Honduran Congress met in emergency session yesterday and designated its president as the interim executive as stipulated in Honduran law. It also said that presidential elections set for November will go forward. The Supreme Court later said that the military acted on its orders. It also said that when Mr. Zelaya realized that he was going to be prosecuted for his illegal behavior, he agreed to an offer to resign in exchange for safe passage out of the country. Mr. Zelaya denies it.

Many Hondurans are going to be celebrating Mr. Zelaya's foreign excursion. Street protests against his heavy-handed tactics had already begun last week. On Friday a large number of military reservists took their turn. "We won't go backwards," one sign said. "We want to live in peace, freedom and development." Besides opposition from the Congress, the Supreme Court, the electoral tribunal and the attorney general, the president had also become persona non grata with the Catholic Church and numerous evangelical church leaders. On Thursday evening his own party in Congress sponsored a resolution to investigate whether he is mentally unfit to remain in office.

For Hondurans who still remember military dictatorship, Mr. Zelaya also has another strike against him: He keeps rotten company. Earlier this month he hosted an OAS general assembly and led the effort, along side OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, to bring Cuba back into the supposedly democratic organization. The OAS response is no surprise. Former Argentine Ambassador to the U.N. Emilio Cárdenas told me on Saturday that he was concerned that "the OAS under Insulza has not taken seriously the so-called 'democratic charter.' It seems to believe that only military 'coups' can challenge democracy. The truth is that democracy can be challenged from within, as the experiences of Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and now Honduras, prove." A less-kind interpretation of Mr. Insulza's judgment is that he doesn't mind the Chávez-style coup.

The struggle against chavismo has never been about left-right politics. It is about defending the independence of institutions that keep presidents from becoming dictators. This crisis clearly delineates the problem. In failing to come to the aid of checks and balances, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Insulza expose their true colors.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/29/2009 06:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hondouras is fighting back a hostile takeover by enforcing the constitution. What a concept! Maybe we should try that. Seems like or constitution has been bypassed quite a lot recently.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon || 06/29/2009 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2  The fact that they are strictly following the constitution is exactly why this is being condemned so loudly in the usual quarters. It sets a bad precedent.
Posted by: gromky || 06/29/2009 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Man I bet Barry, Nacny, and Hillary wished they could do this. If your keeping score this is the third time our country has sided against democray: Israel, Iran, and now Hunduras. Paging Jimmy Carter!
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 06/29/2009 8:50 Comments || Top||

#4  For Hondurans who still remember military dictatorship, Mr. Zelaya also has another strike against him: He keeps rotten company

Zelaya chums around with Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Daley, Geo Soros? What a small world we live in.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2009 9:25 Comments || Top||

#5  This is an outrage, an utter disgrace; the United States joining various tinhorns in an effort to overthrow the rule of law and place yet another country under the heel of authoritarian "community organizers."
Is this the Big Zero's plan for the United States, too; staged and orchestrated "popular" sentiment and the charisma of the dear leader trumping the Constitution and the rule of law?

Screw these traitors, screw the media and to hell with Chavez, Castro, and ACORN.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 06/29/2009 10:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Honduras makes me wonder if anything like this would even happen in the USA, the military moving against the executive branch to block a move outlawed by the courts &/or legislature.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/29/2009 12:35 Comments || Top||

#7  I'd like to voice my full support for someone moving to enforce the constitution here in the US.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/29/2009 12:42 Comments || Top||

#8  "Honduras makes me wonder if anything like this would even happen in the USA, the military moving against the executive branch to block a move outlawed by the courts &/or legislature."

Normally, federal marshals (who work for the judicial branch) would have the job of dealing with illegal acts by the executive branch. If they cannot handle it, the Congress can in fact declare a state of insurrection and call upon the military to enforce the Constitution. This is almost exactly what happened in Honduras. The "coup" and "military power grab" as the traitors at AP call it, was no such thing.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 06/29/2009 13:39 Comments || Top||

#9  I believe the federal courts can also order the military into action in the event of an insurrection, which open defiance by Obama and ACORN the executive certainly would be.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 06/29/2009 13:42 Comments || Top||

#10  The military is part of the Executive branch of government. Not the judiciary and not the legislative. Its leader is the President not the Chief Justice. But that aside, there is always the possibility of a "7 Days in May" type of putsch but Barry would have to be in the soup big time, not just for increasing the deficit and strangling capitalism. I fear we are going to lose our post-Iraq and post-Afghanistan officer corp and Barry gets to mold the heart of the military to his own liking. That is a greater fear than an actual military coup over the One.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 06/29/2009 13:56 Comments || Top||

#11  AP limited their discussion of past coups to Central America. Otherwise they probably would have mentioned the Bush coup of 2000 as the last one. That was executed not by the military but by something libs and the media hate even more, a duly constituted and ethical court of law.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 06/29/2009 13:59 Comments || Top||

#12  Jack, I understand that the military is part of the executive. Nevertheless, its primary oath is to the Constitution and that supercedes any other arrangement or chain of command. Are you saying otherwise, that it is somehow unlawful for the military to assist the Congress or the courts in restoring Constitutional order?
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 06/29/2009 14:03 Comments || Top||

#13  This isn't the fucking Third Reich, there is no Hitler style oath of loyalty to the POTUS unto death.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 06/29/2009 14:05 Comments || Top||

#14  I'll try to make it simple: If the President breaks the law, Congress and the Supreme Court can order him to obey the law in a number of ways. If he still refuses, and attempts, for example, to use force against an impeachment and removal proceeding, the legal obligation devolves down the chain of command until someone will obey. At some point, whoever can enforce the law is legally required to do so.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 06/29/2009 14:16 Comments || Top||

#15  Is there any thing the Clintons cannot make worse?
Posted by: whatadeal || 06/29/2009 15:50 Comments || Top||

#16  Monicas dress sold for a bundle.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/29/2009 17:37 Comments || Top||


Europe
European funding for the narrative war
European efforts to play a major role in Arab-Israeli peace discussions have again been overshadowed, this time by US President Barack Obama's initiative. To raise Europe's visibility, the rate of official visits has increased, and a number of academic conferences on Europe's role are taking place. For example, yesterday the Hebrew University began a three-day conference with the ambitious headline "Strengthening the Forces of Moderation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Role of the European Union After the Gaza War."

For diplomats and policy-makers, a "frank and honest exchange of views" on the problematic European track record in academic settings could be very helpful in correcting decades of misjudgments. For example, during the Oslo process, the European Union and its member states were convinced that Yasser Arafat was a "force of moderation," providing him and his corrupt Fatah cronies with suitcases of money, justified as necessary to "grease the wheels" of the peace process and Palestinian state building. Instead, the cash went to foreign bank accounts and terror.

In Europe, there have been very few independent analyses of these and other diplomatic and policy failures. Fearing embarrassment and worse, officials rejected calls for an independent investigation, until the European Parliament forced the European Commission to hold an inquiry (known as the OLAF report). But years later, this report remains top secret,
One wonders why?
meaning that few if any lessons were apparently learned.

Given this record and the difficulties that Europe has in analyzing itself, Europe does not have a very good record of useful introspection,
although they are quite good at browbeating and self-promotion
serious academic research and conferences can play a very positive role. Unfortunately, many of these discussions of European policy feature speakers and officials who prefer to preach to Israelis rather than investigating their contribution to failure.
As stated above. Preaching to others is so much more fun than admitting to fatal errors, or rather errors fatal to others.
In parallel, important issues related to policy failures are conspicuously absent from such conferences.

ONE SUBJECT consistently avoided in the quasi-official research and conference framework is the massive European funding for radical nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) whose activities fuel the conflict instead of "strengthening the forces of moderation," as proclaimed in the title of this conference.
The U.S. has been guilty of this, too. For that matter, so has Israel, through funds transferred to the Palestinian Authority and others.
Through the "Barcelona program" and aid schemes, the European Commission and member governments provide tens of millions of euros every year to Palestinian, Israeli and other NGOs. The ostensible objectives include promoting democracy, peace, development and human rights, but the results are often counterproductive and fuel the conflict.

These NGOs lead the demonization and delegitimization of Israel, through labels such as "apartheid" and "war crimes," based on the strategy adopted at the 2001 Durban Conference NGO Forum. For example, European NGO funding is the primary engine behind the "lawfare" assaults against Israeli military and civilian officials - a form of soft-war aggression through the courts which accompanies the "hard war" of terrorism. The current case in Spain (chosen for its lenient universal jurisdiction policies) is led by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, which is funded by the European Commission, Norway, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and other governments. Indeed, PCHR is a central force in the NGO demonization and political warfare against Israel.

These European-funded "lawfare" cases are part of the much wider process, conducted through highly political NGOs in Israel that seek to overturn the government's policies - groups like B'Tselem, Yesh Din, Machsom Watch, Bimkom, Ir Amim, Adalah, Mossawa, etc. (The EU claims to fund these NGOs under the guise of limited projects, but the amounts often constitute the bulk of the total operating budget.)

AN EXAMINATION of the activities of European funded NGOs demonstrates that they do not contribute to "strengthening the forces of moderation." Many are active in promoting anti-Israel boycott campaigns, one-state proposals (meaning the elimination of Israel as a Jewish state) and submitting tendentious claims to UN "investigatory" committees.
Who says "soft power" is ineffective?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/29/2009 04:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  led by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, which is funded by the European Commission, Norway, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and other governments. Indeed, PCHR is a central force in the NGO demonization and political warfare against Israel.

Just sayin', is all.
Posted by: Varmint Gloluting1635 || 06/29/2009 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Well no wonder there's been no recent updates to their renowed "Field Reports". Sounds like they've been busy in the glitzy world of international lawfare.
Little Mahmoud blowing himself up with one of pop's homemade grenades probably sounds pretty mundane next to that.
Posted by: tu3031 || 06/29/2009 14:00 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
MSNBC Pays Off
In case you forgot, GE owns MSNBC.....
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/29/2009 13:08 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The corruption is snowballing.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon || 06/29/2009 17:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey, it's the Chicago way.
Posted by: DMFD || 06/29/2009 17:57 Comments || Top||

#3  so no stock for the soft loan?

that's taxpayers money.

Whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/29/2009 18:17 Comments || Top||

#4  GE Cut their dividend from 0.37 to 0.10 per share, per quarter.

Look out below, falling stock.
Eleven Bucks and change now.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 06/29/2009 20:43 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Why dialogue with Pakistan is futile
Considering that 2009 marks the 20th year of full-blown insurgency in Kashmir, it is somewhat surprising that there are not many books that go behind the scenes and beyond newspaper reports to lay bare what actually was happening on the ground and to the people of the state. In recent years, however, Praveen Swami and David Devadas have done some remarkable work to fill some of this empty space. But until now, very little was known of how the insurgency was guided from across the border in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Much of what we know is based on information handed out by the Indian security agencies. There was however no means to corroborate this information. The absence of any independent source of information, which was also reliable, left a huge gap in our knowledge of how the insurgency was planned and how it played itself out inside Pakistan. Also missing was the story of the jihadists and Kashmiri separatists who operated from Pakistan.

In his book Shadow War -- The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir, Pakistani journalist Arif Jamal, unveils the involvement of Pakistan in the insurgency and provides some new and quite startling details of the jihad that Pakistan waged against India in Kashmir. Having covered and observed this jihad from very close quarters, Arif was ideally placed to write this book. There is little that he doesn't know about the people and organisations involved in spawning militancy and terror in Kashmir. But while he is brutally honest in exposing all the misdeeds and murders that were committed in the name of 'Kashmiri struggle for independence', he has concentrated more on the involvement of the Jamaat Islami and its terrorist arm, Hizbul Mujahideen [ Images ], in spreading murder and mayhem in Kashmir.

In the process, Arif has ignored the role of terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Tayiba [ Images ] and Jaish-i-Mohammed because, according to him, "they have a global agenda in which Kashmir is no more than a training ground."

Arif busts many myths in his book, not the least of which is the commonly held view that the alleged rigging in the J&K state assembly elections in 1987 sparked the insurgency. According to Arif, right from the time of partition, Pakistan was always on the lookout for opportunities to stir up trouble in Kashmir. There were occasional lulls in Pakistani efforts to destabilise Kashmir, for instance after the 1971 war. But these periods had more to do with Pakistan's compulsions rather than any change of intentions. As Arif puts it, "Jihad, holy war and diplomacy were thus the first elements of Pakistan's foreign and defence policy -- and they remain so more than 60 years later."

He reveals that in early 1980, General. Zia-ul Haq held a meeting with the chief of Jamaat Islami in PoK, Maulana Abdul Bari. In this meeting Zia told Bari that he "had decided to contribute to the American-sponsored war in Afghanistan in order to prepare the ground for a larger conflict in Kashmir".

Zia predicted that "the Americans would be distracted by the fighting in Afghanistan and as a result would turn a blind eye to Pakistani moves in the region" [If one goes by what Arif writes later in this book, a similar calculation is being made by the Pakistan army [ Images ] today]. When Bari asked Zia who in Afghanistan will receive the biggest share of US assistance, Zia said "whoever trains the boys from Kashmir".

Arif puts a lie to the propaganda that the insurgency in Kashmir is a localised phenomenon and has no links with Jihad international. The book clearly points to the organic links that were established between the Islamists who were waging jihad in Afghanistan and those waging jihad in Kashmir. According to Arif, "in the early days of fighting, Hizbul Mujahideen had all its fighters trained at camps in Afghanistan run by Hizbe Islami [of Gulbadin Hikmatyar]. In particular, they made use of al Badr in Khost province... Kashmiri fighters also made use of other camps in Afghanistan, including Khalid bin Walid, Al Farooq and Abu Jindal." The camp, Abu Jindal, was known as a site for training Arab fighters and in 1998 Osama bin Laden [ Images ] held a press conference there. Later, Arif reveals, training camps were established all over Pakistan and in PoK.

According to the book, the Hizbul Mujahideen learnt its brutality and savagery at the feet of Gulbadin Hikmatyar, who advised the HM chief Syed Salahuddin to eliminate all his rivals. The book quotes a HM commander who said that his organisation eliminated over 7,000 political rivals. But according to another dissident HM commander the number was "many times higher". The method of killing rivals -- chopping bodies, beheading them, sawing them, hanging them publicly are all eerily reminiscent of the tactics used by the Pakistani Taliban [ Images ] in Swat recently.

In a sense, Arif corroborates a lot of what Indian security agencies had already revealed to the Indian media. But where Arif breaks new ground is by informing his readers the suppleness with which the Pakistani military establishment adapts to unfavourable international situations and calibrates the jihad in Kashmir accordingly. This is something that holds important lessons for those in India who once again have started suffering from the delusion that Pakistan army has realised the futility of the jihad and that therefore the time is ripe for striking a workable deal with Pakistan.

Arif believes that the appointment of General Ashfaq Kiyani as army chief signals "a continued strengthening of Pakistani support for jihadi groups". He quotes an HM commander as saying that the jihadis "never had it so good since 1999".

In a clear indictment of the Pakistani policy of unending jihad against India, Arif writes that "in the spring of 2007, the ISI arranged several meetings between a group of Pakistani and Kashmiri jihadis and the Afghan Taliban... these meetings were aimed at creating coordination between the two jihads, in Afghanistan and in Kashmir... As a result of these meetings, some Pakistani jihadi groups joined their Afghan comrades in the tribal areas of Pakistan and also inside Afghanistan. However, most importantly, more jihadis were pushed across the LoC or use other routes to reach India... In a new strategy, most of them were ordered to establish sleeper cells". The aim of this link-up is apparently to reduce Indian support to the Hamid Karzai [ Images ] government and Arif speculates that the bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul is probably a result of this new strategy.

Given that it now appears only to be a matter of time before India and Pakistan re-start the stalled dialogue process, this book should be an eye opener for the Indian negotiators. While negotiations are always a preferred way to resolve disputes, they will never be fruitful until and unless there is a genuine desire on both sides to seek some sort of a middle ground on which a deal can be struck. But if negotiations are only a smokescreen or a diversionary tactic for a nefarious game-plan, then quite obviously the negotiations will be a dialogue of the deaf.

The book, Shadow War, only reinforces the apparent futility of any dialogue with Pakistan at this stage.
Posted by: john frum || 06/29/2009 16:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Dialog? It's impossible to conferr with closed minds.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 06/29/2009 21:24 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Analysis: Syria's goose lays a golden egg
[Jerusalem Post Middle East] Washington's decision to return its ambassador to Syria is the latest stage in the present administration's policy of engagement with Damascus. It relates most importantly to the US desire to secure Syrian cooperation in the build-up to the departure of American combat troops from urban areas in Iraq. The decision is related to the broader American ambition of drawing Damascus away from Iran. Hopes for a revival of talks between Israel and Syria, and the desire to enlist Syria in the ongoing effort to bring about a rapprochement between the Palestinian Fatah movement and the Damascus-domiciled Hamas may also have played a role.

Regarding Iraq, the US is aware that Sunni insurgents will have an interest in ratcheting up the level of violence as the US prepares to draw down its combat forces - to give the impression that it is they who are bringing about the American redeployment. Syria has served as a key ally of the Sunni insurgency since its beginnings. For a period, the route between Damascus airport and the Syrian-Iraqi border was a favorite one for Sunni jihadis seeking to enter Iraq to take part in the insurgency.

In recent months, US officials have reported an improvement in Syrian control on the border, and a reduction in the number of insurgents crossing over. In the familiar Syrian fashion, Damascus's promotion of violence against Americans, and its subsequent willingness to partially reduce this promotion, is used as a tool to reap diplomatic rewards.

Regarding the Palestinian angle: ongoing Palestinian unity talks in Cairo have so far proved fruitless. Despite its focus on a revived Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the administration is aware that for as long as an openly rejectionist Hamas entity continues to rule over 40 percent of the Palestinian population, hopes for a meaningful negotiating process belong largely to the realm of fantasy.

There is therefore a real determination, shared by Egypt and the Palestinian Authority, to make a success of the unity effort. Hamas's leadership is based in Damascus, so efforts to bring Syria closer to Washington may also be intended to enlist Syrian support in pressuring Hamas towards greater flexibility.

The revival of Israeli-Syrian talks is likely to feature on the administration's agenda at some stage in the coming period. The presence of a US representative in Damascus would facilitate US mediation.

The biggest prize, however - a Syrian strategic reorientation away from alliance with Iran - is likely to continue to prove elusive.

An angry, more openly militant Iranian regime is likely to emerge in the coming weeks from the current unrest. It will be hated by a large section of its people. But this will not harm either its desire or its ability to support radical forces in the region.

For the Syrians, the maintenance of alliances with various Islamist and radical regional elements forms a key element of national strategy. It is one which continues to pay dividends. The past months have shown that the Syrians may repair relations with the West at little cost to themselves, while maintaining this stance. One does not, as the saying goes, kill the goose that lays the golden egg. The Syrian "goose" combines alliance with Iran and support for regional instability with occasional gestures of cooperation to the West. It has just delivered the "golden egg" of a new US ambassador in Damascus in return for no concessions on issues of core importance to the Assad regime.
Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  good luck with THAT.
Posted by: newc || 06/29/2009 1:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Nothing beats Ivy League education---except, maybe, lobotomy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/29/2009 5:04 Comments || Top||

#3  It will be hated by a large section of its people

Actually, no. Change that to "a large section of its people who own iPhones."
Posted by: gromky || 06/29/2009 5:35 Comments || Top||



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