THE Honduras mess is going to heat up, not cool down. Will President Obama keep rooting for the side that rallies to the cry "Yanqui go home"?
Obama threw his lot in with deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who's seen throughout the region as a stooge of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. Indeed, Chavez has already threatened military action to return Zelaya to power.
Zelaya now plans to return to Honduras tomorrow, even though the nation's military, acting in accord with its Congress and courts, just forced him out of the country on Sunday. "Who is going to protect me? We are the blood of Jesus Christ, as we say," Zelaya told reporters yesterday.
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