Cliff Kincaid, the editor of Accuracy in Media, a right-wing advocacy group that “attack[s] journalists that write about and seem sympathetic to leftist and even centrist movements” has mounted a vigorous defense of the recent Honduran military coup as “a successful effort by Honduran patriots to preserve their constitutional system of government from an international alliance of communists and socialists backed by Iran.”
Yes, Iran.
Interestingly, Kincaid makes exactly the same criticisms of Obama that American right-wingers made of John F Kennedy’s policies toward African nationalist movements in the early 1960s, who accused Kennedy of siding with the “Marxists” (hardliners preferred the colonialist governments). Kennedy and his advisers saw themselves as siding with the future leaders of Africa.
AIM has taken the template of justification for military takeovers throughout the developing world and substituted Iran in the place once held by the Soviet Union. Given AIM’s history and the people it employs, this is no surprise: