I know our liberals are still all aglow with love and devotion for The One, but the rest of the world is taking the measure of the man, and its having some disturbing effects:
North Korea said on Tuesday it saw talks on ending its nuclear weapons programme as “useless” and it planned to restart a plant that makes arms-grade plutonium, state media quoted its Foreign Ministry as saying.
The comments came in response to the U.N. Security Council unanimously condemning North Korea’s long-range rocket launch nearly two weeks ago as contravening a U.N. ban, and demanding enforcement of existing sanctions against Pyongyang.
“We will actively consider building our own light-water nuclear reactor, will revive nuclear facilities and reprocess used nuclear fuel rods,” KCNA news agency quoted the ministry as saying.
Why do this? Because the North Korean leaders figure that no matter what they do, the world community as led by Obama will not take any action which would actually harm North Korea. There’s no downside to re-starting the nuke program, and the upside could be a new agreement whereby American money and supplies prop up the NK regime…until NK figures it should up the ante and does something else which will bring America to the table to sign away yet more concrete resources in return for yet more paper promises.
Now, Obama can cut the Gordian knot here by hitting the NK leadership – a aerial attack on something NK’s leaders care about would signal them that our intentions are serious, that while the new day in American foreign policy means we’re willing to talk, it doesn’t mean we’re willing to talk to people who just violated the last agreement we made. Obey the current agreement and we can talk about modifying it in a mutual manner…unilaterally renounce the agreement, and it will cost you.
Will Obama do any such thing? I doubt it – like all liberals, he has this basic ignorance which can best be characterized as a lack of understanding of the concept of Original Sin. So, we’ll either back-burner this, or come to some sort of bogus agreement…anything to get us off the hook at least through the next election cycle.
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