Honduras? When did Honduras become an issue? When Obama decided to back the return of the exiled president even though he was legally [mostly anyways - it is Latin America after all] removed from office for attempting to change the constitution through a fraudulent referendum. Of course it's true the US had a history of supporting corrupt right wing politicians in the past down there as part of a possibly not so well reasoned out cold war strategy - but Zelaya ain't no right winger and this ain't the cold war. What makes this interesting is that Zelaya is rather closely tied to uber lefty Chavez and you'd think it'd be US policy not to serve the interests of wacko Chavez - but for some reason we are. That makes Honduras an issue.
The guess here is that the Obama administration was caught completely off guard by this, heard the phrase military coup, immediately assumed the worst and hurriedly ran to sympathize with the aggrieved party - and now, after reflection, they find themselves in something of a bind. Step away from Zelaya as they should and Chavez throws that red meat to the restive socialist hordes roiling in the equatorial sun; stay the course and you're basically propping up a lunatic Bolivarian ranting socialist America is the great Satan freak show , not something you really wanna be crawling into bed with, I'd think.
Tough one. What makes it especially interesting is that China has been assiduously forging ties with this freak show for a few years now - imagine the possibilities there.
