Nuclear Kumbaya

IBD Editorials ^ | September 25, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

[Kaslin]

WMD: "We must stop the spread of nuclear weapons," the president implored the U.N. Almost on cue, Iran announced its second nuclear plant and Brazil talked up its own bomb. U.S. weakness gets noticed.

President Obama delivered numerous applause lines before the United Nations last week, like this one regarding nuclear proliferation: "Those nations that refuse to live up to their obligations must face consequences."

But what consequences? Only the most crippling of sanctions, like a concerted oil export and gasoline import embargo, would constitute real punishment for Iran, for instance.

And we're nowhere near getting that to happen.

Which leaves us with what might best be called Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Diplomacy. Dustin Hoffman, the divorcing dad in the movie "Kramer vs. Kramer," haplessly warns his bratty little boy again and again not to get the chocolate chip ice cream out of the freezer before finishing dinner.

"You take one bite out of that, you're in big trouble," the ever-more-ridiculous-looking father says. As the bite gets closer to the boy's lips, he says: "You put that ice cream in your mouth and you are in very, very, very big trouble. Don't you dare go anywhere beyond that. Put it down right now. I am not going to say it again."

[Kaslin]

[Brilliant]

Obama is steering us very close to Armageddon.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Obama is steering us very close to Armageddon.”

Either he goes, or America does.

[Colonial Warrior]

[Colonial Warrior]

Ah....lessee....Presidency To Do List....

1. Put Air in everybodys tires
2. Play Golf
3. Go to Camp Davy...(wear Crockett hat)
4. Nukeclear dismembermint....dang where is that Teleprompt doo hickey!!

[maica]

IBD resolves the question of who declared what when last week about this second site. While we are crippling our own intelligence agencies, it seems obvious that Iran has eyes and ears inside Western governments:

Upstaging a planned announcement by the U.S., Britain and France, Tehran last week admitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency that it is building a second uranium enrichment facility at a secret site inside a mountain near the Shiite holy city of Qum.