Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Obama is ignoring North Korea to our peril

From Charles Krauthamer:

…What I think is remarkable is that even though over the last 16 years in the Clinton and the Bush administrations we did not succeed in stopping, although we slightly slowed the nuclear program, look what's happened in the six months of the quote, unquote, "smart diplomacy" of the Obama administration?



Long-range missile tests, the explosion of a nuclear weapon probably a third the size of Hiroshima, the declaration that the plutonium the Bush administration had frozen will be weaponized entirely, the entire stock, and the declaration that the uranium program which the Bush administration talked about, which Democrats had said was an invention of the Bush administration, the uranium enrichment is going to start up. All of that and the seizure of two Americans.


Did you get all that? Let me list them:

1) Long-range missile tests,

2)the explosion of a nuclear weapon probably a third the size of Hiroshima,

3) the declaration that the plutonium the Bush administration had frozen will be weaponized entirely, the entire stock,

4) The declaration that the uranium program which the Bush administration talked about, which Democrats had said was an invention of the Bush administration, the uranium enrichment is going to start up.

5) The seizure of two Americans

#5 is particularly egregious. It is outrageous that they could capture, try, convict, and jail two of our journalists. What the hell is Obama doing about that?

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