Honduras

On Honduras, please read Fausta for a look at the speech given by President Micheletti to the OAS. Or as I like to call it a spanking.

La Gringa has the video.
Micheletti:

“First, I wish to express unending thanks for the good will that you are showing . . . but we must speak out about something: the truth. You do not know the whole truth and, at times it appears that you do not want to hear it.

This guy is a hero.

Micheletti:

“I made a comment to some friends that we are not afraid of the United States, its State Department, of Brazil, of Mexico, but we are afraid of Mel Zelaya. Very afraid of his return. Because another thing I like to mention is how other countries point at small countries such as ours and say: corruption, corruption, corruption. . . . But now that we stop acts of corruption, we are singled out by you. Today we show the world what kind of government we had under Zelaya and you are angry at us.

Micheletti:

“We only want the truth to be known. I have said it before and I repeat it today . . . if I am an obstacle, I will step aside, but I demand that this man who has caused the worst disasters to the economy and the morale of the country to step aside, as well.

Afghanistan

I haven’t been talking much about Afghanistan, but today there are a number of must reads for you.

HotAir’s Allahpundit finds the President deciding that the Taliban is not the enemy and maybe we can give them what they want, they’ll stop trying to kill us and we can go on about fighting al-Qaeda.

And suggests Bill Roggio is a must read concerning the distinction, and I agree.

Sa’id’s calculation is plain. Mullah Omar would not agree to turn over bin Laden when he was faced with the prospect of imminent annihilation. Surely Omar will not part ways with the terror master now that his prospects for success are greater than they have been in years.

Read the whole thing.

Also note Obama’s early views of “negotiating with the Taliban”.

The Boston Globe though, notes there are different versions of “the Taliban” and many versions are just warloads looking to get rid of occupiers vs religious jihadists.
Arturo Munoz, retired CIA analyst and is now a senior political scientist at the government-funded Rand Corporation notes:

“Foreigners have been playing the ‘great game’ for centuries in Afghanistan,’’ he said, citing the Persians, Russians, British, and other outside powers who enlisted the Afghan people to further their interests. “You need the Afghans to play. They have been only too willing to play – as long as they see a benefit for themselves.’’

Ralph Peters is still recommending the Joe Biden approach.

Focus ruthlessly on the destruction of al Qaeda and its auxiliaries across the border in Pakistan or wherever they may appear in Afghanistan. This is the counter-terror practice that’s worked for 3,000 years.

I don’t know anything about war, but it does appear that the Afghans a) need us there, b) don’t want us there and c) have not been as abused by al-Qaeda like the Iraqi’s were that they are rising up against them themselves which was a key thing to the “surge” in Iraq.

However, in Pakistan, the Taliban have been abusing the population of late.

With Obama’s fantastical Nobel Peace Price winning negotiating skills, [the link is to Al Jazeera] maybe he can come up with a way for us to openly and unitedly enter Pakistan with Pakistani’s and once and forever get rid of the enemy of both of our countries, thus freeing Afghanistan for themselves without Taliban/al-Qaeda or us.