tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2341954168256070610.post94351654113674350..comments2023-09-12T01:15:08.356-07:00Comments on Honduras Coup 2009: Valenzuela DreamsRAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00097415587406899236noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2341954168256070610.post-91342586251251928082009-11-24T18:46:34.979-08:002009-11-24T18:46:34.979-08:00Also, yes, the White House 'cut a deal' wi...<i>Also, yes, the White House 'cut a deal' with Jim DeMint, but I think Jim DeMint more accurately represented the aims and feelings of the State Department than the State Department felt willing to publicly demonstrate before DeMint provided such a handy excuse.</i><br /><br />I suspect you're right about that. Obviously the pressure was coming from more than just Jim Demint.Justin Delacourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01343303383195336825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2341954168256070610.post-79994496892321697562009-11-24T05:06:34.759-08:002009-11-24T05:06:34.759-08:00Two things:
(1) The U.S. line is apparently that...Two things:<br /><br />(1) The U.S. line is apparently that it will be a 'Government of National Unity and Reconciliation' as long as it, the coup government itself, <i>proclaims that it <b>is</b> a 'Government of National Unity and Reconciliation'</i>.<br /><br />It's a name game, rather than some sort of sane measurement of what the government actually represents.<br /><br />(2) Arturo Valenzuela is highly intelligent and deeply researched, but has it not been the major strain of his work has been that democracies are destabilized by political actors who fail to stay within the bounds of that particular political system's level of stability?<br /><br />Also, yes, the White House 'cut a deal' with Jim DeMint, but I think Jim DeMint more accurately represented the aims and feelings of the State Department than the State Department felt willing to publicly demonstrate before DeMint provided such a handy excuse.El Cidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08557003419999288851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2341954168256070610.post-91395036806681545862009-11-23T20:05:10.503-08:002009-11-23T20:05:10.503-08:00....but that's not how foreign policy should b...<i>....but that's not how foreign policy should be made.</i><br /><br />Nor is it how foreign policy makers usually think.<br /><br />I think Arturo Valenzuela is far too smart to entertain notions that Micheletti's vacation represents a meaningful breakthrough. He spouts such jibberish only because that's what his job requires at the moment.<br /><br />The real issue here is that the White House cut a deal with Jim Demint. The White House would recognize the Honduran elections and, in turn, Demint would allow the nominations of Arturo Valenzuela and Thomas Shannon to go forward. <br /><br />I think Valenzuela knows what the score is.Justin Delacourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01343303383195336825noreply@blogger.com