Krauthammer's Take [NRO Staff]
From last night's Fox News All-Stars.
On Obama presiding over the U.N. Security Council and passing a nuclear non-proliferation resolution:
What did he accomplish? Nothing. This is really quite surreal. As we speak, the Iranians are spinning thousands of centrifuges and developing uranium. The American delegate at IAEA announces that Iran already has enough uranium to construct a bomb. It's testing its missiles, flouting all U.N. resolutions, as are the North Koreans.
And the response of America?
The president of the United States — on camera, of course — presides over a perfectly useless meeting of the Security Council and passes a perfectly useless resolution airily declaring the end of nuclear weapons.
Look, my model U.N. in high school was more realistic than this Security Council. The resolution, as you pointed out, isn't even binding.
And the problem is that the assumption of Obama is that the reason that these rogue states are pursuing nukes is because we have not led by example — rather than the obvious, that they want the prestige and the power of having a nuke.
In fact, the '80's and the '90's, when we radically reduced our arsenals, is precisely when Iran and [North] Korea launched their ambitions and nuclear programs….
Engagement Has Failed! Time to Engage More! [Jonah Goldberg]
Isn't that, in a nutshell, the essence of Obama's foreign policy?
Anyway, from a reader:
I don’t have the time or skill to write about this but you might have an interest. After reading the Corner’s link to Simon Tisdall's blog, I was struck by his comment that “…the argument about who was right and who was wrong about Iran is hardly important at this juncture”, mainly because he believes the stakes are too important now to focus on anything other than how to deal with it. The whole piece is incredibly contradictory and a waste of time. However, it got me thinking back to the 2007 NIE that stopped the Bush administration in its tracks from taking any serious action. Every Iranian apologist, every left/liberal in the U.S. and many Republican senators (Hagel, Lugar and others) convinced the Bush team that a strong show of force against the mullahs was not wise. I want the American citizenry to know that those who doubted the NIE were proved right. Attention must be paid! (I hope the cliché doesn’t offend you)
And, from another:
So let me get this straight, our crack intelligence community knew about this second Iranian nuke plant a year ago (so it couldn't have been that big of secret to begin with) which means our Wonderful and Gracious Dear Leader knew about this second facility and STILL felt the need to reach out to the Iranians as if they were rational actors who could be trusted along with canceling the missile defense site site in Europe?
Do you know where I can find those "If you're not outraged your not paying attention bumper stickers" or do I have to go and talk to my liberal friends and get one from them?