Both of them seemed to be undecided on any real action in Iran. I wonder if they will stay wishy washy with Honduras, or if they are going to rush to further action.

that we haven’t heard much from the administration on this lately. I believe Obama’s last comments were Monday when he said he felt the “coup” was “not legal”, but then he did not follow up with demands for Zelaya to be reinstated. He merely said that the US would work with international partners to “resolve this in a peaceful way.”

It sounds to me like he’s just getting ready for a reversal.

I do hope that Zelaya realizes, as Jim Geraghty of National Review says, that “All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them.”

North Korea has ramped up its nuclear weapons development and testing. Obama’s response has been to write a letter — oops I mean a strongly-worded letter — to the UN.

Iran has ramped up its nuclear weapons development, continues to help kill American soldiers in Iraq, and has murdered dozens if not hundreds of its people. Obama’s response has been to express concern — no, make that grave concern.

The Palestinians and their Syrian- and Iranian-backed terrorists have continued BAU vs Israel and continue to hold an Israeli soldier in Gaza. Obama’s response has been to say Israel is the main problem.

Honduras has taken actions to defend its constitution. Obama’s response has been to threaten to withdraw aid and cut off military or other relations, which is more action taken than against any of the true evil-doers in the world.

If his goal is to erase Jimmy Carter’s legacy as worst president ever, he appears to be well on his way.

Obama will be in Russia, apologizing for Reagan I would guess.

http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=35213&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=381&cHash=1f31edf5eb

The understanding that Washington must offer important concessions is widespread in Moscow.

It was the Obama administration’s idea to “reset” relations with Russia, so if the Americans want that to happen, they must deliver and change their foreign policy significantly to achieve anything.

A pro-Kremlin Moscow think-tank - The Council on Foreign and Defense Policy - produced a report “Retuning instead of resetting - Russian interests and relations with the U.S.” which argues that Russia might begin to cooperate with the U.S. and NATO on Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan.

The U.S. in turn must drastically change its policies in the post-Soviet space by not supporting the anti-Russian regimes in Georgia and Ukraine, stopping any effort to incorporate these or any other former Soviet states into NATO and refraining from developing bilateral military-political partnerships with the former Soviet states.

The report calls such a possible U.S.-Russian arrangement a “grand deal” and points out that Georgia or Ukraine are highly important to Russia, but of marginal interest to the U.S., unlike Iran, Afghanistan or North Korea.

This fact could make the proposed “grand deal” possible, since Moscow and Washington will each be trading unimportant items for important ones (RIA Novosti, July 1).