Obama's Record Is One Of Weakness In Foreign Policy
The Bulletin ^ | 4/9/09 | Herb Denenberg

 

The North Koreans, in violation of a U.N. Resolution, launch a rocket that flies over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean, possibly with the capability of reaching the U.S. What do we do? We send it to the United Nations, which doesn’t even pass another U.N. Resolution, which would certainly be ignored. It agrees to meet again.

Yes, the U.N. is so pathetically weak, it can’t even come up with another toothless tiger resolution. It can’t even say North Korea is in violation of a resolution adopted in 2006 after a North Korea missile launch of July 5 and a nuclear test on Oct. 9 of that year. The resolution demanded that North Korea refrain from any more nuclear testing and ballistic missile launches. So much for resolutions. If the North Koreans ignored the 2006 resolution why will they suddenly take a 2009 resolution seriously?

And after the tough talk of Barack Obama — words have consequences, violators must be punished, blah, blah, blah, etc. — we come home to his usual response of words, diplomacy, negotiation, consideration and everything but action and forbid the thought of a military option. Our U.N. ambassador pressed for “strong condemnation” of the North Korean action. I’ll bet they’re still trembling as they celebrate the rocket launch and another chance to defy the international community.

What does our president do? He is busy downgrading and killing our missile defense program.... abandoned in the face of a growing missile/nuclear threat from North Korea and Iran. Mr. Obama cuts back on defense, as he continues a wild spending frenzy on about every liberal proposal that could be dreamed up. And he proposes unilateral nuclear disarmament.... North Korea may even be laughing as it made his nuclear disarmament speech look silly.

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