Posted on 04/06/2009 1:27:30 PM PDT by Tolik
Video is here: http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=4224963&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=
The transcript with my clean up is below
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Automatically Generated Transcript (may not be 100% accurate) - I cleaned it up a bit.
FoxNews: " Tensions on the rise right now after North Korea's missile launch. The UN Security Council meeting in emergency session late yesterday. Lots of talk but no real concrete action -- so North Korea not exactly shaking in it's boots, as the UN in effect powerless to do anything. --we'll ask Charles Krauthammer - he's a syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor. President Obama expressed his dismay with this launch -- basically said the UN's got to do something. What do you expect out of the UN, Charles?"
Krauthammer: " Well what happened yesterday was a farce. You didn't only not get a resolution that condemns the north Koreans. The Russians said they weren't even sure there was anything wrong with the launch. The Chinese have said "we're not going to take any actions" - there was no resolution. What you do when you don't have a resolution. --you go to the fall back, which is a statement issued by the president of the council - that's fifteen members, and the presidency rotates - and they issue a statement, which is always a weak response in an of itself - it's non binding. And when the president made this statement, it you've got to ask yourself - did that statement included condemnation -- or was there any kind of warning? The president's statement was not even allowed to contain the words "expressed concern", because the Chinese objected. You know -- Obama says that when anything happen we are going to go to the UN - as if that's effective. If he had gone to Oz, it would've had more effect that what happened yesterday at the UN"
FoxNews: "Isn't this the same UN that had warned North Korea not to undertake this kind of test, and yet they undertake it, and now the UN can't even say: "We are concerned about this?"
Krauthammer: It couldn't even use the word "concern" - you're right. After the launch of 1996 there was a resolution saying "don't do this again!" ... you'll be .... you're warned that you shouldn't be launching any ballistic missiles. Of course it does. The bottom line is: nothing happened. And when Obama speaks about "the International Community" which is supposedly expressing itself at the UN and in the Security Council - he is talking about a fiction- it doesn't exist, it doesn't do anything, and it doesn't have any influence."
FoxNews: "Well, and at the same time the president is talking about non proliferation - you know, trying to dismantle nuclear weapons around the world - it's a noble goal if everybody would stick to it. But when you've got nations like North Korea out there - it doesn't seem plausible."
Krauthammer: " But he makes a grandiose speech. The Czech Republic is about all of this. But it has no enforcement mechanism. There's no way in which it's gonna happen. It's a dream, and it's a childish one. I mean, it really is embarrassing to have a President of the United States stand out and talk about all of this, as if a moral authority of United States is going to influence the Iranians and the North Koreans, when a demonstrably they are completely resistant to anything except their own national interest. And the way to influence national interest of other countries - evil countries like the North Korea and Iran - is with sticks: diplomatic and military, economic. And we have nothing effective in relation to either of those two countries. "
When Obama was sworn into the Presidency, the Joint Chiefs met with him and told him straight out that the UN isn’t able to enforce anything... that it is a paper tiger... Obama gave this serious thought, and came up with a solution: He ordered thicker paper.
We could give them more help with nuclear technology, maybe even send back Ahlbright, if they promise to calm down.
Maybe the VP can help?
As much as one is inclined to intone, ‘get US OUT of the UN!’ for the ten-millionth time, we can’t fault the UN. They have become merely as cowardly as is the United States citizenry. Only our brave military has courage; the man on the street is a eunuch. We deserve a full measure of the hell that awaits us.
Krauthammer: " But he makes a grandiose speech. The Czech Republic is about all of this. But it has no enforcement mechanism. There's no way in which it's gonna happen. It's a dream, and it's a childish one. I mean, it really is embarrassing to have a President of the United States stand out and talk about all of this, as if a moral authority of United States is going to influence the Iranians and the North Koreans, when a demonstrably they are completely resistant to anything except their own national interest. "
You don't think Obama can just reason with them, laying on some of that smooth Harvard-Alinskyite charm with heavy doses of Athena pheromone mojo cologne, as he calmly explains the Dag Hammarskjöld/Hans Kelsen neo-Kantian theories of international cooperation?
Maybe they just need the same class in Social Studies Obama took at Columbia. In the spirit of the United Nations, he should offer to arrange international exchange student scholarships for Kim Jong-il and Ahmadinejad so they can read Richard Hofstadter's The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Saul Alinsky, Erich Fromm, and the other cool liberal stuff Obama "studied" at Columbia.
It would make a great seminar: Obama's Foreign Policy: The Conciliation Approach.
The Kantian Project in Modern International Legal Theory
Kant, the Republican Peace, and Moral Guidance in International Law
“He ordered thicker paper.”
I for one would feel so much more secure were UN Security Council resolutions printed on stone tablets. Then tinpot dictators around the world would REALLY sit up an pay attention...
Reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine will take care of the North Korean problem.
I prefer the Ragnar Danneskjöld theories of international cooperation!
"When robbery is done in open daylight by sanction of the law, as it is done today, then any act of honor or restitution has to be hidden underground."
- Ragnar Danneskjöld in Atlas Shrugged
"This dude is totally bogus, man!"
- Jeff Spicoli, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
where IS the VP?
Stand Up Joe!
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