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1 posted on 04/06/2009 1:27:31 PM PDT by Tolik
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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. "


2 posted on 04/06/2009 1:28:00 PM PDT by Tolik
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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.


4 posted on 04/06/2009 1:31:32 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

Reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine will take care of the North Korean problem.


11 posted on 04/06/2009 2:18:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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