Death squad collaborator? Sure. War criminal? You bet. But did you know that John Negroponte is also sort of a dick? It’s true…
Early Tuesday morning, after 14 hours of discussion, the thirty-four member countries of the Organization of American States smacked Colombia down hard, rejecting its invasion of Ecuador as a "clear violation" of the OAS charter. Even Colombia voted in favor the resolution, literally rejecting itself as a state sponsor of assholery.
But then the next morning Negroponte, who apparently had slipped out the night before and left the voting to some deputy, issued a declaration expressing the United States' grave "reservations" over the resolution, which, again, it had voted for a few hours earlier. The protest doesn't actually change anything, it was just meant to be dumb little dig at the concepts of "peace" and "regional reconciliation." Meanwhile Colombia, the target of the resolution, expressed no such reservations, but then the Colombians probably weren't the ones who came up with the idea to bomb Ecuador in the first place.
