Instead, President Manuel Zelaya illegally tried to go ahead with a referendum to change the constitution, then, after the military arrested him, a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/honduras/5677026/Honduras-supreme-court-ordered-army-coup.html"acting on a court order/a, Congressional leader Roberto Micheletti was sworn in a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup_5"ONLY to complete the seven months left on Zelaya’s term/a. If this really were a military coup, we wouldn’t have his denouement.br /br /It’s still not a good thing whenever the military gets involved in government, especially in Central America. But, in this case, the military was doing its duty, and did it the right way.br /br /And, yes, it is a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124619401378065339.html"meddling by the Obama Administration/a when it insists on restoring Zelaya.br /br /Perhaps, per the often sensible conservative blogger Allahpundit, Obama is fearful of “optics,” knowing the Honduran military’s long connection to more thuggish elements in the U.S. military, CIA, etc.br /br /No matter. It’s not a coup.div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-4335601955096894301?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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