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TESTING O'S LIMITS (HE HAS NONE): IRAN AND NORTH KOREAN ARE MAKING A MOCKERY OF HIM
NY Post ^ | May 31, 2009 | Ralph Peters

Posted on 05/31/2009 3:39:03 AM PDT by Scanian

In the old days at Officer Candidate School, the "tac officers," snapping and snarling, would circle a hapless would-be lieutenant:

"You're lost, Candidate."

"You're confused.

"What are you going to do now?"

"Make a decision! Make a decision!"

That cherished image of the bewildered victim of calculated harassment fits President Obama perfectly, when it comes to the shambles he's made of foreign policy in record time.

Around the globe, our enemies -- immediate and potential -- are testing Obama to see how far they can go. Thus far, he hasn't set a limit anywhere. Not a single dictator or terrorist leader got a single time-out.

Last week, North Korea nuke-mooned him, then spit missiles in multiple directions. Our president admonished Pyongyang. Words solve everything in Obama-World.

The Master of the Teleprompter didn't seem to grasp the basics: Like spoiled brats, the North Koreans were demanding attention (and got it); Pyongyang never honors agreements; and, above all, this isn't our problem to solve -- it's China's. We just need to worry about nuke exports and keep our Navy gainfully employed.

Instead, we've let ourselves be set up as the bad cop, with Beijing as the good cop. We get the responsibilities, Beijing gets the benefits.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoasia; bhoiran; bhonukes; iraniannukes; nknukes; ralphpeters; second100days
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1 posted on 05/31/2009 3:39:04 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

In an extreme liberals’ mind, it is not fair for the good guys to have overwhelming superiority.

In an extreme liberals’ mind, Israel will be forced to divide Jersualem and negotiate for peace once Iran has nuclear weapons.

In an extreme liberals’ mind, South Korea will merge with the North once North Korea has nuclear weapons.


2 posted on 05/31/2009 3:49:14 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: Scanian

When will the people who voted for this disaster admit they were wrong? I’m sure some of them were sane, albeit abysmally gullible. If any are honest and not totally ignorant they’ll soon have to admit their error. At least to themselves.


3 posted on 05/31/2009 3:57:34 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Worse than we could have imagined.)
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To: Scanian

The most disturbing part of this disturbing article is the part about OStupid wanting to make “deep, unbalanced cuts” in our nuke arsenal.


4 posted on 05/31/2009 3:57:40 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Scanian

If firm steps are not taken, this drive for nuclear weapons on the part of small, hostile societies run by maniacs is going to end very, very badly.

Unfortunately, the current U.S. administration is not one to act firmly on anything at all, save the massive and utterly unbridled confiscation of American wealth to pass along to its consituents, supporters, and various hangers-on. In that effort, at least, we can all count upon the Obama administration to exert itself mightily.


5 posted on 05/31/2009 4:10:03 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (here)
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To: Scanian
While everything else is falling down around our president, the Obama Doctrine stands: Every enemy is a friend, or can be made into one. Let's talk about it.

Ouch! Peters slays obama in this article.

6 posted on 05/31/2009 4:17:37 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Scanian; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; ...
Re: Around the globe, our enemies -- immediate and potential -- are testing Obama to see how far they can go. Thus far, he hasn't set a limit anywhere.

And you expected... Photobucket something different?

Looks like the Øbama Voters wants a nuclear holocaust... Photobucket and the way The Øbamanation is going, they will get very shortly.

7 posted on 05/31/2009 4:23:59 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Scanian

Don’t know what Ralph Peters expects Obama to do that would be any different from what Pres. Bush would have done.

He could put N. Korea on the Terrorist List.


8 posted on 05/31/2009 4:29:27 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: luvbach1
Interesting you ask that.

My wife car lease was up and we went to a car dealership and made a deal. While talking with the finance guy for all the paper-work, we talked a little about the economy. He admitted that he had voted for Obami, and now wished he hadn't.

I'm seeing these SUCKERS almost every day thinking they made a BAD choice. It's growing. This "community organizer" pretender WILL be soon to be seen as the inexperienced FRAUD he is. Just watch.

Hang tough. He is a Carter and a one term president.

9 posted on 05/31/2009 4:33:28 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: Scanian

Maybe it turns out after all that we can no longer be a gutless, marxist country and expect the rest of the world to respect us.


10 posted on 05/31/2009 4:35:29 AM PDT by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: A Navy Vet

“community organizer”(class baiter)


11 posted on 05/31/2009 4:35:55 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: luvbach1

I keep asking myself the same question? When will they admit they made a mistake?

I keep reading of the abominable things Obama is doing with auto’s ,energy, economy, and when it comes up in a discussion with democrat friends , they keep excusing or ignoring them like they dont exist. I dont know how much my cousin lost in the stock market, and its like it was just nothing . He still can’t admit Obama sucks. Is it denial?


12 posted on 05/31/2009 4:36:51 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: luvbach1
Never happen, liberals are not capable of such honor. They will only tell more lies and whine that it was all the fault of Conservatives.
13 posted on 05/31/2009 4:44:08 AM PDT by fuzzybutt
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To: luvbach1

There are rumblings of discontent among some Obummer voters. My hubby is beginning to see it at work. I might add that the ones who are regretful are white. Sadly, the black population will never admit that they made a mistake.


14 posted on 05/31/2009 4:48:18 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Smile you're on Janet's Candid Camera!)
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To: Bender2

The best way to restructure America into Obamas socialistic utopia is to first destroy the morale, the economy, the infrastructure and the will of America to argue against him, and he has the clock ticking against him for him to succeed. When America is on its knees it will welcome his “change” with parades and confetti. He requires an international crisis to maintain and elevate his position, his plans and his vision of the future most likely a twisted Islamic/marxist democracy steeped with anti-christian laws.

Every day more doubts arise about his eligibility as POTUS.
And every day he has an army working the web and the MSM to whitewash his history.

Obama cannot, absolutely cannot make a crisis evolved decision, he has no loyalty for America, he will sell America out, he will threaten any ally we have from Israel to South Korea. He thinks he is Xerxes, he is POTUS, he won, nobody can tell him he is wrong, no law can touch him.

And nobody cares enough to speak out in the strongest words needed to illuminate the grave danger he represents to the United States of America.

Obama is like a mechanic that has no clue how to diagnose a cars problem, he just starts swapping out parts until the problem disappears.


15 posted on 05/31/2009 4:48:33 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: nuconvert

“Don’t know what Ralph Peters expects Obama to do that would be any different from what Pres. Bush would have done.”

Talk a bit tougher, pull all aid until NK comes back to the table in regards to the 6 party talks is a good atsrt.


16 posted on 05/31/2009 4:48:47 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Climate change alarmists are Warm-Mongers. Now that's funny right there. I don't care who you are.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

America is going to wake up in about 6 months. It will be right around bonus time when senior management, who gave that bonus last year comes back and says they can’t because Obama said so.

America will also wake up when GM fails and we find out that 60 billion of our tax dollars went to build environmentally safe Hugos at twice the cost and more dangerous to drive.


17 posted on 05/31/2009 4:52:56 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Climate change alarmists are Warm-Mongers. Now that's funny right there. I don't care who you are.)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

I have seen a few blacks starting to make a few tentative anti Obama statements where I work, one just stated she was a conservative. Another is married to a Christian white male and was always conservative republican.


18 posted on 05/31/2009 4:58:42 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: luvbach1

“When will the people who voted for this disaster admit they were wrong?”

A few have already admitted this. The vast majority of those who voted for this very inept Marxist will not understand their mistake until his foolish policies begin to really AFFECT them. I speak of foreign policy and all policies related to the economy.


19 posted on 05/31/2009 4:58:54 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“Talk a bit tougher”

Well, he syas, “Words solve everything in Obama-World”, so apparently talk isn’t what Peters wants.

“pull all aid until NK comes back to the table in regards to the 6 party talks is a good atsrt.”

I doubt Pres. Bush would do that.

I think Obama should put them back on the Terrorist list. That will tick off N. Korea, so he’d have to have a response for their reactions afterward.


20 posted on 05/31/2009 5:00:53 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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