I haven’t said much about the one-act kabuki theater recently witnessed in the Honduras, if you are allowed to have those there. President Zelaya was pushing through an unconstitutional referendum, designed to alter an unalterable part of the Honduras constitution — the part of their constitution prohibiting “strong man rule.” Their Supreme Court said referendum was unconsitutional, and Zelaya proceeded onward anyhow. And so the Honduran military marched him to an airplane headed to Costa Rica while he was still in his jammies, the ones with rocket ships on them. I confess that I made that last part up.
But President Obama of the United States was gravely concerned. If militaries in this hemisphere start removing presidents just because they are trampling all over their nation’s constitution, where might it all end?