Obama Dangerously Ignorant on Foreign Policy
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Prior to his coronation election, Conservatives were worried about Obamaa’s lack of experience with Foreign Policy matters, and the President’s actions recently are a perfect illustration of why they were worried:
North Korea broke U.N. rules once more by testing a rocket that could be used for a long range missile.
“This provocation underscores the need for action — not just this afternoon at the U.N. Security Council, but in our determination to prevent the spread of these weapons. Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished,” Obama said in a speech calling for the long-term abolition of all nuclear weapons delivered at Prague’s historic Hradcany Square.
“Words must mean something. The world must stand together to prevent the spread of these weapons. Now is the time for a strong international response. North Korea must know that the path to security and respect will never come through threats and illegal weapons,” he said.
That’s right — Obama has threatened to go to the UN to get another resolution which tells North Korea to stop developing missiles. After all, the first one was sooooo effective.
The UN is the most impotent organization on the planet, with the exception of the French military. Kim Jong Il will ignore any new UN resolution just like he did the old one. Apparently, the only people intimidated by the UN are its female employees.
So, North Korea launches a communications satellite long-range ballistic missile, thus proving that they steadily making progress towards becoming a threat to other countries, including the US, and what does Obama do? He cuts the missile defense budget:
There has always been an air of absurdity about the opposition to missile-defense systems. No one argues that missiles aren’t a threat, but somehow defending ourselves against it is illegitimate unless one stumbles on a complete, perfect defense immediately. That we have never found a perfect defense against any weapon on the first throw doesn’t appear to faze people at all.
You see, Obama is worried that developing a ballistic missile shield isn’t “cost-effective.” Instead of investing in technology which has the potential to save millions of American lives, he would rather spend trillions to bail out failing businesses and control America’s banks. The development of the atomic bomb was nowhere near “cost-effective” in the 1940′s, but its development lead to the end of World War II and saved hundreds of thousands of American lives by negating the need to invade Japan.
So far, Obama has failed to do anything positive with regards to Foreign Policy besides nurture his personal popularity by apologizing for America everywhere he visits. Apparently, Obama’s top Foreign Policy goal is to be popular with the Europeans and grovel for forgiveness for America’s past sins. This strategy, if you can call it that, will lead to the loss of American life, perhaps on a large scale. Leaders like Kim Jong Il no longer fear reprisals from America; Obama has made it clear that he intends to make America the UN’s bitch as long as he is in office. Unfortunately, I don’t think Obama will come to his senses until it is too late and we’re all mourning more of our fellow citizens.
Print This Post
April 9th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
You DO realize those are just puppets in that video, don’t you Nick? And that Kim Jong Il isn’t the evil supergenius from the James Bond movies?
Just checking.
So what is it that you think Obama was supposed to do about North Korea? Launch another invasion? Drop a couple of nukes?
Do you know what Bush would have done? Yup. The same thing Obama did.
April 10th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Regarding North Korea, I expected more than a threat to get yet another useless resolution which tells them how angry the UN is. The UN is toothless, and anything they do is akin to pissing into the wind. Force is all that Kim Jong Il understands, and we have the means to take these things out right on the pad. Doing so would have sent a strong message to North Korea, as well as other terrorist states, that we mean business. Instead, we stood by and let them do whatever they wanted to. All that happened was that North Korea is now emboldened to do more.
Its funny, but your first guess on what I’d want to happen involved dropping nukes. I’ve never advocated using nukes on North Korea in any but the most desperate times. Obviously, they aren’t needed to defeat these guys; conventional smart weapons are more than enough to wipe out whatever missile capability they have or are working on at this time. However, just like Iran, they are working on their own nukes and if they should succeed in getting one up and running, the whole ballgame changes.