Posted on 05/29/2009 7:29:49 AM PDT by Wolf13
This week it became clear that President Obamas choices may end up triggering the nuclear option.
No, I dont mean that the Empathy Presidents choice of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter will result in Democrats changing the Senate rules (the nuclear option) to end a Republican filibuster.
Instead, Im talking about Obamas foreign policy choices, which are prompting tyrants the world over to thumb their noses at our new president and in some cases to test their nuclear capabilities. As the world tries to determine whether President Obamas empathy extends to maniacal foreign tyrants, one thing is clear: it will take more than eloquent words to compel Americas enemies to behave.
On Monday, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (Why is it that the world most despotic regimes so often have the most democratic-sounding names?) defied international sanctions and conducted its second nuclear test, which preliminary seismic readings showed as much more potent than its first test in 2006.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
My own opinion, the UN -- if it meant anything at all -- should have placed itself in the role of non-proliferation enforcer. If a regime (like Sadaam) were pursuing WMD, it should have been warned, inspectors sent, yadda, yadda, yadda, but if results were unsatisfactory, without too much delay, the leading countries of the world should have declared: "We're nuking Iraq. Next Tuesday." Then they should have drawn straws to see which nation would deliver the weapon.
No guilt. No fuss. No war crimes. No outrage. Just simply: We didn't want people like that (Iraq, Iran, North Korea, etc.) to have the bomb -- so we whacked them really, really hard to get them to stop development.
It's a lesson that would probably never have to be repeated, anywahere in the world.
Dude, you’re making way too much sense, you wanna be locked up er’ something .... If only the world acted that way ...
One must deal with immediate threats to life & liberty with deadly force.....
NK knows that any nuclear missle launched from their shore will be the last..... I agree that the sale of the tecnology is the real threat.
DumbO will unilaterally disarm the U.S. to show dictators, thugs and mullahs that we are no threat to governments that want to starve and kill their citizens.
Exactly right.
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