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Will Obama Trigger the ‘Nuclear Option’?
Human Events ^ | 5-29-09 | Gary Bauer

Posted on 05/29/2009 7:29:49 AM PDT by Wolf13

This week it became clear that President Obama’s choices may end up triggering the “nuclear option.”

No, I don’t mean that the Empathy President’s 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, I’m talking about Obama’s 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 Obama’s empathy extends to maniacal foreign tyrants, one thing is clear: it will take more than eloquent words to compel America’s enemies to behave.

On Monday, the Democratic People’s 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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: iran; northkorea; obama; supremecourt

1 posted on 05/29/2009 7:29:49 AM PDT by Wolf13
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To: Wolf13
One way or another, it's coming.

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.

2 posted on 05/29/2009 7:40:34 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are a ruled people, serfs to the Federal Oligarchy -- and the Tree of Liberty thirsts)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Dude, you’re making way too much sense, you wanna be locked up er’ something .... If only the world acted that way ...


3 posted on 05/29/2009 7:42:44 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: Wolf13
I don't think the risk is that NK pops a nuke; I think the risk is that NK sells a nuke.
4 posted on 05/29/2009 7:43:44 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Tyranny is always whimsical." Mark Steyn 3/9/2009)
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To: ClearCase_guy

One must deal with immediate threats to life & liberty with deadly force.....


5 posted on 05/29/2009 7:45:08 AM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: NonValueAdded
I don't think the risk is that NK pops a nuke; I think the risk is that NK sells a nuke.

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.

6 posted on 05/29/2009 7:47:58 AM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: Wolf13

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.


7 posted on 05/29/2009 8:05:32 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (If you are in a concentration camp and nobody knows you are there, are you really there?)
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To: NonValueAdded
I don't think the risk is that NK pops a nuke; I think the risk is that NK sells a nuke.

Exactly right.

8 posted on 05/29/2009 8:07:39 AM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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