What Obama's reaction to North Korea's missile says about Iran
For those of you who have been sleeping, North Korea launched a missile early Sunday morning in what is widely regarded as a test of nuclear weapons capabilities. I'd like to look at President Obama's statement on the launch (Hat Tip: Memeorandum), because I believe that it tells us a lot about the reaction we can expect when and if Iran deploys a nuclear weapons. North Korea’s development and proliferation of ballistic missile technology pose a threat to the northeast Asian region and to international peace and security. The launch today of a Taepo-dong 2 missile was a clear violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718, which expressly prohibits North Korea from conducting ballistic missile-related activities of any kind. With this provocative act, North Korea has ignored its international obligations, rejected unequivocal calls for restraint, and further isolated itself from the community of nations.Please note what's not here. No call for sanctions. No call for action against North Korea. Just talk, talk, talk. As if North Korea will be moved any more than it already has been by the sanctions imposed by the 'international community.'
We will immediately consult with our allies in the region, including Japan and the Republic of Korea, and members of the U.N. Security Council to bring this matter before the Council. I urge North Korea to abide fully by the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council and to refrain from further provocative actions.
Preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a high priority for my administration. The United States is fully committed to maintaining security and stability in northeast Asia and we will continue working for the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through the Six-Party Talks. The Six-Party Talks provide the forum for achieving denuclearization, reducing tensions, and for resolving other issues of concern between North Korea, its four neighbors, and the United States. North Korea has a pathway to acceptance in the international community, but it will not find that acceptance unless it abandons its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and abides by its international obligations and commitments.
Now imagine that instead of it being a North Korean test missile, it were an Iranian nuclear missile shot at Israel. Does anyone believe Obama's reaction would be any more than talk?
Michelle Malkin summed it up best:
North Korea’s response:
“Nyah, nyah, nyah, we can’t hear you.”
Hope and Change anyone?
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:21 PM
3 Comments:
Obama's approach to North Korea and Iran and nuclear proliferation generally, betrays the same naivety demonstrated by leftists who call for gun control. They fail to recognize (or acknowledge the statistical data) that when law-abiding citizens are prevented from owning fire-arms, only the criminals will have them. This is true in Obama's home city for example, where gun control laws are amongst the strictest in the country -- and gun crime is rampant.
One can imagine North Korea or Iran or the Taliban honoring international agreements to ban nuclear weapons. Can't one?
Hopenchange?
Israel abandoned to its fate. If the Americans are indifferent to the launch of a North Korean missile, draw your own conclusions about what they will do should Iran launch an ICBM.
Israel is on its own out from here on, folks.
oh my god the world looks down on America's arrogance and criticizes every military action the country makes yet when something like this happens its all eyes on the American military for a response "what will Israel do if Iran launches a nuke" how will Obama respond will he do more than talk? yea lets let American spread its troops to Afghanistan Iraq and North Korea then when well go on world news and talk shit? cmon people
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