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Help me out here. President Obama immediately "meddles" in the affairs of Honduras, denouncing a military coup, the intent of which is to preserve the country's constitution, but when it comes to Iran's fraudulent election and the violent repression of demonstrators who wanted their votes counted, the president initially vacillates and equivocates. Are we expected to accept this as a consistent foreign policy? Even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was reluctant to call the removal of President Manuel Zelaya a coup, if for no other reason than it would stop U.S. aid flowing to the impoverished Central American nation.
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The Honduras Predicament
Perhaps a better option was for him to share the same fate as President Diem, but people I suppose are more humane today, so what would you rather happen, a bullet to his head or paling around with his pal Hugo? Or why not bring him back, have a trial and then have him shot? That better?