In re: Honduras, here’s a comment from the same post you link to:

If you read carefully art. 239 it develops around a PROPOSAL, and that proposal does not exist. Zelaya is making barely an announcement of an unverified event, but never he is making any proposal. You could say that he indirectly wants people to support reeelection, but he is making absolutely NO PROPOSAL AT ALL. Without proposal definitely there is no crime. That’s why it is very important to listen carefully what he said and to read carefully the Constitution, in order to understand the legal meaning of “proposal”, completely differente from a guessing announcement of an unverified event, which obviously is not a crime.

Now of course, if there was any such language in the US Constitution, you’d decry it as creating a thought crime. Your opposition to Zelaya has NOTHING to do with constitutional interpretation. It is all about two factors – 1. Money 2. Pride – That is fucking it and you know it.

And yes, I apologize for forgetting about the Pakistani election. I am aware of it, I listened to dozens of stories about it on NPR, and after doing several hours of research on Afewerki and Sayasone, I didn’t stop to refresh my memory on the subject. I forgot, good catch, yada yada yada – but I’m not the one who needs to prove that my value system isn’t entirely subjective.

Of course, a real military coup wouldn’t have put Mr Zelaya on a plane out of the country; a real military coup would have put him in a box under the ground.

Most Latin American constitutions have strict provisions on term limits for their presidents, due to the history of so many “presidents-for-life” that they’ve been forced to suffer.

That’s it. Threat assessment is not a factor – otherwise they would be considering the danger posed by Pervez Musharraf’s nukes.

If you think we neocons aren’t concerned about Pakistan, you are very mistaken; we just don’t have a good alternative in there. But someone actually informed about the situation would know that President Musharraf has been out of office for over a year now.