First we go to Mark Steyn and his take on the Obama administration's handling of North Korea:
Pyongyang's actions were "a matter of …" Drumroll, please! "…grave concern," declared the president. Furthermore, if North Korea carries on like this, it will – wait for it – "not find international acceptance." As the comedian Andy Borowitz put it, "President Obama said that the United States was prepared to respond to the threat with 'the strongest possible adjectives.' Later in the day, Defense Secretary Robert Gates called the North Korean nuclear test 'supercilious and jejune.'"
The president's general line on the geopolitical big picture is: I don't need this in my life right now. He's a domestic transformationalist, working overtime – via the banks, the automobile industry, health care, etc. – to advance statism's death grip on American dynamism. His principal interest in the rest of the world is that he doesn't want anyone nuking America before he's finished turning it into a socialist basket case.
Indeed.
Although clearly, Obama knows how to get tough with countries that don't fall in line:
Government sources said the administration has held up Israel's request for the AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter. The sources said the request was undergoing an interagency review to determine whether additional Longbow helicopters would threaten Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.
"During the recent war, Israel made considerable use of the Longbow, and there were high civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip," a source close to the administration said.
So let's review.
North Korea, rogue nation with a madman at the helm, explodes a huge nuke and Obama yawns and gets the Defense Secretary to lob some word bombs his way in retaliation.
Our best ally in the war against Islamic jihadists however is punished when 'sources' deem them not to be fighting that war as they should and so, by proxy, side with the Jihadists.
Bookworm speaks for me when she writes:
Who do you side with — a democratic regime that grants equal rights to minorities, all faiths, women and gays or a totalitarian regime that tortures, enslaves, kills and exiles all minorities, all but one religion, women and gays? Put that way, you manage to cut through the crap about the “victims” in the latter regime (who are primarily victims of their own government, not of the former regime) or about imperalism or about “just wanting to live in peace.”
I'm getting the vibe that those with sense will be cutting through loads of crap until 2012.
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