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peacefully protesting the Junta in Honduras, whose injudicious use of tear gas choked her to death? So she will never run for president, or do anything else--teach, have children of her own, vote, protest injustice or sit quietly at home. Her options have been violently ended, by murderers who will no doubt receive immunity for their crimes. All she sought was peace, fairness, social justice.
The article makes a brutal contrast between her lost young life, and that of President Obama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't particularly like the article. For one thing, it fails to note that Obama came from circumstances very similar to Wendy's. It puts him at Harvard Law School as if by magic. It also fails in the matter of understanding Obama, whom I believe has good intentions and has put himself in the line of fire of extremely dangerous forces--the Dark Lords of this Earth--in the belief that he can do some good. I don't think he will ever be permitted the power to do any significant good--so he is probably self-deluded--but I don't think it's fair at all to regard him the way one might regard Bush Jr., for instance, born to fabulous wealth and power--truly born with a "silver spoon in his mouth," as the old saying goes--and who has accomplished nothing but horror and mayhem throughout his life. Or Henry Kissinger, who actually won the Nobel Peace Prize, after slaughtering half of the two million people who died at US hands in Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. There was a man whose Nobel prize genuinely deserved ridicule.
Obama may not be all that we would wish, but I don't think he deserves this kind of drubbing. Those who deserve the drubbing are those, here and in Honduras, who conceived and executed this coup, and are brutally oppressing the Honduran people, and are intent on spreading their death squads and their militaries everywhere they can, and imposing "free trade for the rich" by force. They are sabotaging a more peaceful US policy--and that is all I think we can hope for, from the US government any more--something "more peaceful" and less overtly brutal and genocidal than Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. I do think Obama is committed to these more peaceful means, and is having one hell of a time achieving even this limited goal.
The Nobel Peace Prize makes him an easy target. That's one reason I don't like the article. It's a cheap writing formula--and it is not well worked out.
However, you seem to misunderstand the article completely, and I wonder if you even read it--or are you crowing over the fact that Wendy Avila will never be president of Honduras or any country, because she is dead, and good riddance to one more leftist? Is that it? What is your point? Please explain how this dead young woman can run for office and "earn the vote of millions like Obama."
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