NO WAY AND NO HOW!!!!!
http://www.globalpolicy.org/unitedstates/unpolicy/gen2001/0308negr.htmContra Aide
By Sarah Wildman
New Republic
March 8, 2001
One of the primary responsibilities of George W. Bush's new ambassador to the United Nations will be to berate countries like China, Burma, and Afghanistan for their violations of human rights. That's what America's U.N. ambassadors do.
Which is why, when the Bush administration announced its choice for U.N. ambassador this week, human rights activists did a collective double take. For although John Dimitri Negroponte has a reputation for doggedly defending U.S. interests overseas, he has at least as strong a reputation for making sure human rights don't get in the way. Midway through a foreign service career that began in the mid-'60s in Vietnam and continued through a stint in Mexico in the '90s, Negroponte served as ambassador to Honduras. It was the early '80s, and the Honduran government was killing and "disappearing" political opponents by the dozens. Most close observers, including some who served within the U.S. embassy, insist America knew about the abuses. And they accuse Negroponte of turning a blind eye. Says one human rights lawyer, "A guy like that is not going to be a very credible spokesperson for American principles on human rights."
and then let us just snip to the end and oh my god, I wish so much I had not even gone here..........:
Binns doubts Negroponte's naivete. "I find it difficult to believe," he says, "that an ambassador at an embassy doing its job would not be aware of
. It appeared in the press, people spoke about it. So while it may not have been brought to his attention officially, it's hard to believe he wasn't aware."
But Negroponte's behavior makes sense to those who served in Honduras at the time. Lifelong bureaucrats, says one former high-ranking embassy staffer, have "an uncanny ability to tell the policymakers exactly what want to hear ... never let truth get in the way.... And John was ... one of these people." Letting Congress--already skittish about the Reagan administration's exploits in Central America--know the truth about the Honduran government would have complicated the Contra effort to which Negroponte's superiors were so deeply devoted.
Not exactly the moral sensibility you want in a U.N. ambassador--the person who, in the tradition of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, is supposed to take public, blunt, and often lonely stands against the thuggeries that populate First Avenue. But Washington has a short memory, and even Capitol Hill's most impassioned opponents of the Reagan administration's Central America policy don't plan to question, let alone oppose, Negroponte's nomination. "If there were ever a time for a nonideological, bipartisan foreign policy, this is it," says former adversary and potential presidential candidate Senator John Kerry. Seems like Negroponte's see-no-evil political style is catching on."
Oh shit, I certainly did not expect to find Senator Kerry here. I'm pissed. I've had enough with Kerry and his duplicity about South America. This is not good folks. Throw in Rand Beers and this is a disaster, instead of the Mid-East, we are going to have a full fledged war in the South American States, Mexico and all points South.
I really ought to take a break, see you all later...........
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