[ironborn123]

Not going to say US behavior is morally sound in this case, but

- US has provided significant financial assistance here, and if it doesnt get any say in return, it has no incentive to provide continued help.

- As far as hegemons so, US has been the least bad in world history. Dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

[blitzar]

> - US has provided significant financial assistance here, and if it doesnt get any say in return, it has no incentive to provide continued help.

Text book bribery.

[SR2Z]

You can't bribe an entire state. I don't mean that in a philosophical sense; I mean that any state gets to decide what's legitimate support and what's bribery.

[CrackerNews]

Kind of hard to argue for the least bad when there's been pro-US death squads cracking down on their opposition.

[xbmcuser]

They are champions of democracy but the leader of the most popular party is being railroaded in false cases their silence more than anything tells us what is going on. How come they are not saying anything apart from it being a countries internal matter when a democracy is being destroyed but had statements about human rights every week against the previous democratic government.