Earlier this year, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was removed from power by constitutional means for trying to usurp power and stay in office longer than permitted by law. President Obama has sided with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez in demanding that Zelaya be put back in power. Now Obama is baffling observers even more by saying that he does not see the upcoming elections in Honduras as legitimate – even though Zelaya would not be eligible to run anyway. So why is Obama so insistent upon reinstating a man who would be a lame duck anyway? Why won’t he recognize the upcoming elections as legitimate? What message does this send to other Latin American democracies? Why is this position getting almost no media attention? We ask former Pentagon official and Washington Times senior editorial writer James Robbins.
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