HONDURAS: WHITE HOUSE ATTY ADVISING OBAMA A FAMILIAR NAME

White House counsel Gregory Craig is allegedly advising Barack Obama on policy with Honduras. That would be the same Gregory Craig that represented the father of Elian Gonzalez, who was getting further "moral" support by Fidel Castro in the late 90's.

Perhaps Craig's name rings another bell because he's been out there aggressively defending the Obama administration's firing of INSPECTOR GENERAL GERALD WALPIN as well.

WSJ's Mary Anastasia O'Grady reports on the Honduran angle....

Mr. Craig was the lawyer for Fidel Castro—er, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, the father of Elian Gonzalez—during Bill Clinton’s 2000 repatriation to Cuba of the seven-year-old. During the presidential campaign when Mr. Craig was advising Mr. Obama, the far-left Council on Hemispheric Affairs endorsed Mr. Craig as “the right man to revive deeply flawed U.S.-Latin America relations.” In other words, to pull policy left.

There is plenty of speculation that Mr. Obama is making policy off of Mr. Craig’s “expertise.” It is not too much to believe. Indeed, if all policy is now being run out of the White House, as many observers contend, then the views of the White House counsel may explain a lot.

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When I tell people about the situation in Honduras, I'm often met with dismissiveness because of other problems or a perceived minimal impact to us here. The problem with that tack is it serves to miss out on some EXTREMELY TELLING and dangerous statements and stances being made and taken by this administration.

With all that we've learned about what really happened in Honduras relative to Zelaya's ouster, you'd think Obama (if well-intentioned) would pull back and reassess his Latin America policy. On the contrary, he appears to be ratcheting it up for some reason and Craig appears to be willingly obliging.

As Zelaya is wreaking havoc with his boisterous presence along the Honduran border with Daniel Ortega providing nearby refuge, we continue learning more and more about a dastardly past (and present) belonging to Zelaya.

By all accounts, Zelaya was attempting to destroy his country's system of government while consolidating power like Hugo Chavez did. His government fought back and kicked him out. Obama wants him back in and is stepping up the pressure. A logical question is why, considering what we know about Zelaya. In any case, it's telling us much about Obama.

Hondurans might be more amenable to an Obama democracy lecture if the U.S. showed any interest in standing up to Mr. Chávez and his antidemocratic allies or any grasp of the dangers they present. Instead, since taking office in January the American president has embraced the region’s bad actors only to be subsequently embarrassed by revelations that his new “friends” are actually enemies of liberty and peace.

Yesterday, I posted a link to a report on Fausta Blog that Honduran officials have accused Zelaya of taking FUNDING FROM FARC.

Obama's policy toward Latin America is dangerous but it may be telling us more about him than even his domestic policies do.