Posted by
Tom L. on Monday, April 06, 2009 6:00:00 AM
President Clinton thought we were fighting law breakers, so he tried treating terrorists as criminals. After the USA was attached on 9-11, President Bush understood we were at war. President Obama apparently thinks we are being picked on by a school bully: “North Korea broke the rules once again”. So he did what any teacher would do, he called the principal, in this case the Secretary General of the UN. President Obama wants North Korea to be made to write on the blackboard 1,000 times “We will not launch missiles.” The sad part is that the UN cannot even agree to have them do that.
So what does President Obama do when the UN finally sends a note home to Pyongyang, “Please know that little Kim Jong II has been behaving badly in the world and we would like him to stop. Thank you.” No doubt President Obama will proclaim the United States is safer because we worked with the international community to handle this crisis.
It would not be a bad approach if the President actively supported a missile defense system. At least that way the UN ineffectiveness would have little meaning, we could protect ourselves from the bully.