Hide & Sneak

Here's a review of the sorry saga of Barack Obama's determination to kick Honduras into the Chavez/Castro orbit.  He's demanded it, used the Organization of American States to impose it, withdrew U.S. visa access to Honduran diplomats and cut off non-humanitarian aid to Tegucigalpa to force it, all to no avail.  Through it all, interim president Roberto Micheletti has courageous stood firm against an enemy he probably never imagined would be ever turn against his country like this.

Now it looks as if the administration's next step in Operation Honduran Tyranny is to smuggle Manuel Zelaya back into Honduras like the Germans once infiltrated Vladimir Lenin back into Czarist Russia:

Deposed President Manuel Zelaya said Monday he has returned home to Honduras to reclaim his presidency, defying threats of arrest and summoning supporters.

While the State Department confirmed on Monday that Zelaya is in Honduras, his exact whereabouts were unclear, possibly in an attempt to avoid capture.

“I cannot give details, but I’m here,” Zelaya told the local TV Channel 36. His voice, but not his image, were transmitted.

He said initially that he was at the United Nations headquarters in his homeland, and Elisabeth Sierra, a spokeswoman for the Honduran Embassy in Nicaragua, where Zelaya had been exiled, reiterated the claim.

“He is in Honduras and calling the resistance to gather in front of the United Nations and protect the constitutional president of Honduras,” she said Monday.

But a spokeswoman at the U.N. offices in Tegucigalpa told the Associated Press he wasn’t there. “I have no idea where that story came from,” said spokeswoman Ana Elsy Mendoza. Nonetheless, Zelaya supporters were gathering outside the U.N. compound, said U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas in New York.

Am I missing something, or why is a Honduran government spokesperson sounding like a Zelaya disciple?  Mightn't that be an AP typo that was supposed to read "Nicaraguan embassy in Honduras"?

More to the point is the deafening silence from Foggy Bottom as to just what the devil they're doing meddling in the politics of a democratic (small "d") Central American ally on behalf of enemies of the United States.  And, assuming they have smuggled Zelaya back into the country - and, one has to suppose, giving him refuge at the American [correction: Brazilian] embassy in Tegucigalpa - what is the next step if this gambit fails?  Sending in the CIA to do that for which the Left has disemboweled Langley for decades - that is, overthrow foreign governments, only this time a friendly one instead of an enemy?  Only thing beyond that is a direct invasion of Honduras, and that'd be awfully public for a president already growing more unpopular by the day.

A rather gaping contrast with Red Barry's insatiable fawning over "the world's biggest degenerates":