Posted on 05/25/2010 1:45:57 PM PDT by traumer
North Korea's behavior shows why we must stop Iran's mullahs from getting the bomb.
Last week, while meandering toward a fourth U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran, Washington was blindsided by the revival of a previously discarded plan to enrich some of Iran's uranium to higher levels for use in the Tehran research reactor. This proposal -- a good deal for Iran when it was proposed last year by the misguided Obama administration -- is even better in its latest iteration and does nothing to stop Iran's uranium enrichment program.
The Iranian enrichment deal was brokered by Brazil and Turkey, two of the 10 current nonpermanent Security Council members, and it could pose difficulties for getting the council to adopt another resolution on sanctions. To forestall the debilitating effects of the Brazil-Turkey deal, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promptly circulated to other council members the draft of a sanctions resolution the five permanent members and Germany had spent months negotiating.
Unfortunately, the damage was done. Turkey announced that negotiations on sanctions should cease for 30 days and Brazil flatly proclaimed it would not even discuss the draft resolution. Since one good turn deserves another, China and Russia will now graciously acknowledge the Brazil-Turkey initiative and insist that the other permanent members enter serious consultations regarding the draft of the permanent five. Thus, having negotiated intensely for months with Russia and China, Mrs. Clinton can look forward to another opportunity to negotiate intensely with both them and their surrogates.
The pending, wholly inadequate sanctions in the draft resolution will almost certainly grow weaker. Most significantly, a new effort to embargo major conventional weapons sales to Iran does not prohibit selling Iran air defense capabilities. Thus, Russia can still deliver its sophisticated S-300 system,
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In a way - I want to be in the epicenter - I’m tired of it all...
What ever happened to that goofy “5 minutes to midnight” clock from the “concerned scientists” that the “media” always drags out when a Republican is in the White House?
Maybe we need to get it done while the US still has some weapons to throw at them. Obama will probably hand over the football at the next big arms conference. Give it to the UN or something.
Victor Davis Hanson expands on the growing risk of nuclear war.
obama needs a war to keep the scam going
bump
“Whatever happned to that goofy...clock?’
They actually pushed the hands back a minute (to six minutes from midnight from five) in January.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/15/doomsday.clock/index.html
Same thing that happened to all the stories about homelessness, hunger, a bad economy, and psoriasis.
Thanks! LOL! Wouldn’t ya know it, CNN!
It was a true Obama-worship moment.
I thought the all messiah, Odumbo, had to do was flap his big messiah magical elephant ears and people would just automatically love each other. That’s what the media implied. So it’s gotta be true, right?
Why does nobody listen to this man?
All he does is take gratuitous abuse from spineless schmucks like George Voinovich.
I agree with Ambassador Bolton, but the first thing that should be done is to take out those miniature submarines and their mother ship dockside where they are now in North Korea. We have definitive proof that is where the attack originated, and NoKo has proven they cannot be trusted with such weapons.
I think it is long overdue when we call this fat little dog eating dictator’s bluff. He can’t stop what he can’t see, and he sure as hell can’t see a couple of B-2s armed for bear, and if done properly such a strike would make the site look like a fickin’ asteroid hit it, so there’s all the “plausible deniability” we would need.
“Oderint dum Metuant”
“Let them hate, so long as they fear”
A little taste of Caligula is just what Chia Head needs...
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If the axis of evil were to nuke our six largest cities they’d be doing America a favor.
>>Maybe we need to get it done while the US still has some weapons to throw at them.<<
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Who will be the QB?
It's still around, although it comes from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists still around, they set it back to 6 minutes from 5 in 2007, The Won is the reason but here's what they say:
IT IS 6 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
2010: International cooperation rules the day. Talks between Washington and Moscow for a follow-on agreement to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty are nearly complete, and more negotiations for further reductions in the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenal are already planned. Additionally, Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. president to publicly call for a nuclear-weapon-free world. The dangers posed by climate change are still great, but there are pockets of progress. Most notably: At Copenhagen, the developing and industrialized countries agree to take responsibility for carbon emissions and to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius.
In 2007 they said.
IT IS 5 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
2007: The world stands at the brink of a second nuclear age. The United States and Russia remain ready to stage a nuclear attack within minutes, North Korea conducts a nuclear test, and many in the international community worry that Iran plans to acquire the Bomb. Climate change also presents a dire challenge to humanity. Damage to ecosystems is already taking place; flooding, destructive storms, increased drought, and polar ice melt are causing loss of life and property.
And our congresscritters are pliable enough to let him get away with it.
Don’t they have made certain survival arrangement for members of government in case of a nuclear war? Even if they survived, whatever is left of the country is still bad off.
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