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American Diplomacy

Monday, March 29:
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a rare public rebuke to close ally Canada on Monday, criticizing it for excluding key nations from a meeting to discuss the resource-rich Arctic. . . .
“Significant international discussions on Arctic issues should include those who have legitimate interests in the region,” Clinton said in a [...]

Posted 30 March 2010 § Canada § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Free Tibet?

Maybe not:
President Barack Obama has refused to meet the Dalai Lama in Washington this week in a move to curry favour with the Chinese. The decision came after China stepped up a campaign urging nations to shun the Tibetan spiritual leader. It means Mr Obama will become the first president not to welcome [...]

Posted 05 October 2009 § United States ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Honduras Round-Up

I’ve been traveling for the better part of a month, and I haven’t been able to stay on top of the developments in Honduras. Here’s a brief round-up:

The Law Library of Congress’s Directorate of Legal Research has issued what is, to date, the only objective legal analysis of the Honduran constitutional crisis. Its [...]

Posted 04 October 2009 § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Moving Forward in Honduras

Following ousted President Emanuel Zelaya’s surreptitious return to Honduras, interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti has another important op/ed in the Washington Post. Micheletti makes a fundamental point that has been almost completely missed in both coverage and analysis of the Honduran crisis:
Underlying all the rhetoric about a military overthrow are facts. Simply put, coups [...]

Posted 22 September 2009 § ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: ,

Harper on Honduras

At the Three Amigos conference in Guadalajara, Stephen Harper gave Jake Tapper of ABC News a broad-ranging interview that touched on trade, health-care, H1N1, and Afghanistan. The interview also contained the first reported public statements by Harper on Honduras (at least that I’ve seen); I reproduce them here in full:
Tapper: There has been [...]

Posted 10 August 2009 § Canada ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Re-evaluating Honduras

[An edited version of this post appears at The Mark.]
It’s been a month since the Honduran army, at the direction of the Supreme Court, removed President Manuel Zelaya from office, and a month since—on its own initiative—the army sent Zelaya into exile. A month of demonstrations and failed negotiations have not changed the status [...]

Posted 07 August 2009 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The Path Forward

Honduras’s interim president, Roberto Micheletti, has an important op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal reiterating some key—but oft-overlooked—facts about Manuel Zelaya’s removal from office, and explaining the Honduran government’s willingness to accept a negotiated settlement to the crisis.

Posted 27 July 2009 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

*Sigh*

The neatest thing about being a conservative is that I learn new things about myself all the time. Viz.: turns out I support military brutality. Who knew!
Prof. Huish makes two interesting points; I’ll respond here (and, hopefully, at The Mark) next week.

Posted 24 July 2009 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Justice for Honduras

My Honduras post has been republished at The Mark.

Posted 03 July 2009 § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Honduras

If the Canadian and other world governments had been as thoughtful in approaching the situation in Honduras as they have been hasty in casting judgment upon it, we wouldn’t be in the midst of a terrible foreign-policy blunder. But here we are. How did we get here?
The events leading up to the present [...]

Posted 30 June 2009 § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,