President Obama Comes Out Strong For Iran Honduras

June 30, 2009 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under International Affairs, Iran, Latin America 

Somebody phone Mir Hossein Mousavi President Obama has found his inner jingo.

Obama said yesterday that the ‘coup’ against Honduras’s leftist President Mel Zelaya was illegal, recalling America’s dark past of not standing for fledgling Latin American democracies when they didn’t act in their larger neighbor’s  interest.

This reaction is a stark contrast to Obama’s remarks about Iran’s election ‘irregularities’ in which he didn’t want to be seen as meddling and said there was no way of investigating foul-play because international observers weren’t present. Then, Obama recalled our shameful past of meddling in sovereign nations. Charles Krauthammer explains:

Now Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is threatening a military invasion.

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