Fact is, the bastards have been pretty quiet about Negroponte’s new gig. Not to mention the peculiarity of appointing as our man in Iraq a widely loathed political fixer burdened by what is at least the appearence of a shady past vis-a-vis human rights and democracy. But then, all that old Central America Cold War stuff is yesterday’s news. And everybody knows you can’t trust nuns. Like Sister Laetitia Bordes. Revealer associate editor Kathryn Joyce recollects her story:
……The point being that this isn’t just a Catholic story, it isn’t just a leftist story — it’s a huge story. Which means it’s not enough for the press to pull quotes from 20-year-old reporting. Rather, if Negroponte is going to Iraq, the press should be going back to Honduras. Matthew Yglesias gets it — now let’s see the story jump the fence, from lefty-land into the great, wide, journalistic open
Negroponte speaks no Arabic and has no background in the Middle East or the Islamic world. What he does have is a good deal of experience with counterinsurgency. Bad experience. Experience dating from the waning days of the Vietnam War through the Reagan administration’s policies in Central America and consisting largely of propping up right-wing dictators, violating human rights, and working to deceive the Congress and the American people.
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