{"id":12022,"date":"2009-06-26T15:12:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12022"},"modified":"2009-06-26T15:12:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T20:12:12","slug":"hope-is-not-a-tactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12022","title":{"rendered":"Hope is Not a Tactic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This totally avoidable display of weakness was just as predictable. I warned that putting the USS McCain on the trail of this ship was a bad idea from the start.<\/p>\n

Obama had decided to pursue the toothless United Nations route and should have left it at that. Instead we get this news <\/a>today.<\/p>\n

The United States will not use force to inspect a North Korean ship suspected of carrying banned goods, an American official was quoted as saying Friday.<\/p>\n

An American destroyer has been shadowing the North Korean freighter sailing off China’s coast, possibly on its way to Myanmar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rather than allow this to be another UN failure, Obama decided to make it a 100% American failure.<\/p>\n

HotAir<\/a> aptly described their view:<\/p>\n

So why did we bother to get the resolution in the first place? If the Obama administration didn\u2019t see that threat coming from miles away, then they are even more clueless than I\u2019d imagined. Instead of Obama looking tough, Kim has shown the world that he can bully the US into retreat at any time. He exposed Obama as a paper tiger.<\/p>\n

Kim now knows he can do whatever he wants in the Pacific Rim and suffer no consequences at all. He can sell missiles, proliferate nukes, and the worst that will happen will be the US Navy asking, \u201cMother, may I?\u201d when it comes to inspections. This, Obama wants us to believe, is \u201csmart power\u201d; in reality, it\u2019s neither. It\u2019s Jimmy Carter-style weakness, and our enemies will derive the obvious lessons from it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pathetic.<\/p>\n

Note to President. A war ship at sea is like a pistol in a ghetto. If you have no intention of using it, you don\u2019t want to show it off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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