Spineless foreign policy

So what happened this weekend? While the US was immersed in the useless-ass Michael Jackson news and doing their best to ignore the fact that we’ll all  be broke by the end of the year paying our new backdoor taxes on our energy needs, the rest of the world continued to turn.

Did you hear that Iran had seized several British Embassy employees? No, of course not. I think it was nine that were detained by Iranian police for inciting the rallies against the government. Five were released yesterday and four more remain in custody according to CNN;

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Sunday protested the arrests, calling them “harassment and intimidation of a kind which is quite unacceptable.”

Iran’s intelligence minister has blamed Western powers for stirring up protests over its disputed presidential election, singling out Britain and saying the British Embassy in Tehran “played a heavy role in the recent disturbances.”

North Korea seems to be upset that we’ve moved missile defense assets to Hawaii. They, somehow, think that we’re moving defense systems to attack North Korea – kinda like the Murtha plan to defend the Iraqi government from Guam, I suppose. This from Australian Associated Press;

“Through the US forces’ clamorous movements, it has been brought to light that the US attempt to launch a pre-emptive strike on our republic has become a brutal fact,” the North’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said on Monday.

The paper also accused the US of deploying nuclear-powered aircraft and atomic-armed submarines in waters near the Korean peninsula, saying the moves prove “the US pre-emptive nuclear war” on the North is imminent.

The commentary, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, said the North will bolster its nuclear arsenal in self-defence.

I also wrote yesterday a few times about the removal of Leftist president Manuel Zelaya from his position in Honduras. He awoken early yesterday morning and sent to Costa Rica by the Honduran Army, apparently under the orders of the Honduran Congress and the Supreme Court. The Obama Administration called the act a “coup” while the Honduran Supreme Court claims it was completely legal since the Army was only defending their constitution from a domestic threat.

Apparently the Obama administration had their fingers in several attempts to remove Zelaya in preceding weeks according to the Washington Times;

The official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named, said the U.S. Embassy in Honduras was “consistently and almost constantly engaged in the last several weeks working with partners” and that U.S. officials were “in contact with all Honduran institutions, including the military.” However, the military stopped taking the embassy’s calls since the coup attempt, the official said.

Hmmm, they stopped taking the Obama administration’s calls, huh? Probably because they weren’t being helpful. The OAS, the UN, Chavez’ ALBA members have all condemned the removal of Zelaya from office, but actually, two branches of the Honduran government, the Judicial and Legislative, both arrived at the conclusion that Zelaya was trying to change the government of Honduras, like Chavez changed the Venezuelan government to suit his own selfish purposes. It’s an internal issue.

The rest of the world has decided that they’re going to let Iran kill it’s own citizens, let North Korea fire off missiles anywhere they want while imprisoning US citizens, but they’re not going to let the Honduran government come to conclusions about the way it’s governed?

Oh, and Chavez said yesterday that he’s ready to return Zelaya to office with the use of the Venezuelan Army. And the world is hoping he will, apparently.

I thought Obama was going to change the way the world looked at us. Apparently he did – the world thinks the West are a bunch of pussies now that American foreign policy doesn’t have room to defend the innocent now. This administration is too intent on grinding our economy into the dust to pay attention to the rest of the world.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Economy, Foreign Policy, Hugo Chavez, Politics, Terror War, Usual Suspects