Don’t Panic: What happened to the U.S.-brokered political deal in Honduras?
November 30, 2009 at 11:00 am by Andisheh Nouraee in Don't Panic
I owe my reader(s) a big apology.
In my Nov. 2 column, I dumped several heaping tablespoons of praise on the Obama administration for brokering a peaceful political compromise to the military coup crisis in Honduras. Even though I included the weasel-y journalistic hedge phrase “assuming the deal is OK’d by Honduras’ Congress,” I still wrote the entire column as if the agreement was a done deal.
I was wrong and apologize. Big-ly.
It turns out I spoke way too soon. Honduras’ Congress didn’t OK the deal. They haven’t even bothered to vote on it. A series of events I characterized as a victory for the Obama administration’s multilateral diplomacy, for democracy, and for improving the U.S.’ standing in Latin America, were in fact cringe-inducing displays of weakness, ineptitude and cynicism.
First, a little background info.
On June 28, Honduran soldiers picked up an hombre named Manuel Zelaya, put him on an airplane, and deposited him approximately 350 miles to the southeast in beautiful Costa Rica.
That doesn’t sound too bad, right? After all, who wouldn’t want a free flight to Costa Rica?
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November 30th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
With the Obama administration I have a feeling your going to be using that phrase a lot over the next 3 years.
“I owe my reader(s) a big apology.”
And I’m sure you’ll always find someone else to lay the blame on but we all understand it’s okay.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
PS
reader(s) –> readers
I know another guy who reads your columns so go ahead and use the plural, you’ve got at least 2 out here.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
So, your comment to a column blaming Obama is that I won’t blame Obama.
That makes sense.
November 30th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
No my comment is that you may end up heaping praise on Obama and after a few months your going to find out that that praise was premature and you may end up apologizing for that praise.