The Benefits of Incompetence and Appeasement

The Obama administration's gross incompetence and naivete has an up side, at least in the foreign policy arena. It is forcing other nations to drop the anti-US crap, grow up, and act like adults:

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea said Wednesday any dialogue with North Korea should be firmly based on the goal of ridding the communist regime of nuclear weapons, as the United States considers Pyongyang's long-held desire for direct talks.

Unification Minister Hyun In-taek, in charge of ties with Pyongyang, also told the North not to think of winning economic aid or normalizing relations with the United States while holding on to its atomic weapons.

These were the same South Koreans warning President Bush not to be too tough on the pot bellied pig to the north. Meanwhile, in Olde Europe, our continental critics are getting worried at news that President Obama wants to unilaterally give up nukes:

Gordon Brown is due to use this week's UN general assembly meeting to renew a diplomatic offensive on Iran for its failure to comply with security council demands that it suspend enrichment of uranium.

Germany is also expected to toughen its position on Iran ahead of a showdown between major powers and the Iranian government on 1 October.

French President Nikolas Sarkozy went so far as to mock President Obama's starry-eyed naivete:

"We are right to talk about the future," Mr. Sarkozy said, referring to the U.S. resolution on strengthening arms control treaties. "But the present comes before the future, and the present includes two major nuclear crises," i.e., Iran and North Korea. "We live in the real world, not in a virtual one." No prize for guessing into which world the Frenchman puts Mr. Obama.

"We say that we must reduce," he went on. "President Obama himself has said that he dreams of a world without nuclear weapons. Before our very eyes, two countries are doing exactly the opposite at this very moment. Since 2005, Iran has violated five Security Council Resolutions. (Source:   WSJ - Sarkozy)

 Glad to see our allies growing up. Fear tends to do that to you.
 

Allies Get Tough

Stumblin' In

I'm glad the Americans have been sprung from the Pot Bellied Pig's North Korean gulag. I pray for the captured Americans now being used as political pawns by the Iranian Mullahs.

I also think they should be publicly scolded for their stupidity, and the Administration should declare that if such an event happens again, the clueless kids who stumble into the black widow's web are on their own. Unlike an innocent American getting kidnapped off the streets of some presumably-safe capital, these naifs recklessly put themselves in danger, providing political ammunition to their captors, and putting the US government in a difficult situation.

Three blissfully ignorant Americans, looking for a cool adventure they could brag to their friends about, have instead given the Iranian dictators a propaganda coup:

"Their illegal entry cannot be altogether unrelated to the post-election unrest ... What mission were the three pursuing in Iran? Why did not they apply for Iran visas?" said Mohammad Karamirad, a member of parliament's Foreign Affairs and National Security Committee, the official IRNA news agency reported.

In North Korea, President Clinton's rescue mission was a dressed-up form of ransom, paying off a nuclear-armed nut. In exchange for doing the right thing, Kim Ill got his inflated ego stroked by having a former president play supplicant to him.

According to Richard Halloran, it also greatly enhanced the standing of this porn party, sex offending egomaniac. Kim's standing was enhanced even more.

It's time for us to stop feeding the tyrants of the world, and it's time for US citizens to grow up and realize that the world is a dangerous place.

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Stop! Or We'll Say Stop Again!

The pot-bellied pig of Pyongyang has the bomb now, and he's also got the missile technology to deliver it. The Hermit Kingdom has been helping the Iranian mullahs arm up for years. A Persian nuke is just a matter of time.

This is what happens when we rely on European diplomacy and the UN. While the diplomats express consternation and outrage, threatening to talk him to death, Kim ill is laughing his ass off because he knows this is worth tons of free food and heating oil to keep his slave camp operating.

I'm afraid nothing short of him incinerating a half a million people will spur responsible people to serious action.

It's all good until somebody loses an eye...


* - "Stop! or I'll say stop again!" comes from a 1980's Robin Williams stand-up routine about Britain's unarmed cops.

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