I agree with you, Alan. There are levels of discontent with the socialist administrations in these countries and they need an external enemy to blame. I don't think it's anything more than that.


>>This one is really disturbing. We have soldiers at a military base, we do joint peacekeeping, counternarcotics, and numerous humanitarian and disaster relief missions together. I myself have participated in medical missions and the U.S. still participates in those today as well as peacekeeping, anti-narcotics, disaster relief, and engineering mission specifically with and for Honduras and her neighbors. Honduras even contributed troops to Iraq.
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>>http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1240144420080912
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>>It's definitely politics at play here, but whose politics? This situation reminds me of a previous situation which involved a group of countries using their only means available to publicly pressure the U.S. over a very private issue....
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>>Is it happening again? Does it have absolutely nothing to do with the Ambassadors at all but rather something else? I may be paranoid, but history certainly suggests so...
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>>They all want something or want something to stop, but whatever the 'something' is, it is not what we are reading about at all. That much is obvious. What is the U.S. administration doing (or threatening to do) that we don't know about and no one will (even the victims or participants) acknowledge?
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>It's just a diversion. Things aren't going so well in their countries, so they seek to divert attention from the real problems by pretending there is a problem somewhere else. Same sort of thing happens here from time to time, and I imagine in the U.S. too.