{"id":9456,"date":"2009-04-06T19:01:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T00:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=9456"},"modified":"2009-04-06T19:12:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T00:12:06","slug":"the-cold-slap-of-realty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9456","title":{"rendered":"The cold slap of reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

After our president called for a strong response from the United Nations in reaction to North Korea’s missile launch yesterday, the UN ponders what it can possibly do to punish North Korea (The Washington Times<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

North Korea’s rocket launch left the U.N. Security Council with few options for punishing the defiant nation at an emergency session Sunday, despite calls for a “strong” response by President Obama and others.<\/p>\n

The session ended after more than three hours with no immediate action other than an agreement to continue consultations. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I asked yesterday what they could possibly embargo besides dust and the wind. Today the UN has come to the same realization. Of course, our president wasn’t much helpful – he called for our unilateral disarmament. That’ll teach North Korea, won’t it? (Fox News<\/a>); <\/p>\n

Declaring the future of mankind at stake, President Obama on Sunday said all nations must strive to rid the world of nuclear arms and that the U.S. had a “moral responsibility” to lead because no other country has used one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again, it’s the US that’s the problem because we used a nuke twice 64 years ago. It’s our fault. Anyone alive that had anything to do with that decision? Nope – but it’s our fault. We should have let the Germans or Japanese get the bomb first and the president wouldn’t be burdened with that guilt. Maybe we ought to give North Korea one free shot at us to set the score right.<\/p>\n

Of course, that’s entirely possible (Another Fox News<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

“This kind of action only further isolates the North and the fact that the Security Council is taking a shoe up demonstrates how important it is that we deal with this matter and the need for it to be dealt with and so I would reject any characterization that the North — that this is some kind of a win for the North — it’s not,” he said.<\/p>\n

The United States has so far decided to rely on the U.N. Security Council to dole out an appropriate response….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then, for good measure, we’re going to stop staying ahead of the rest of the world in combat technology (yet another Fox News<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday recommended a broad range of budgetary cuts to high-tech weapons programs, including production of the F-22 fighter jet.
\n[…]
\nThe Army’s $160 billion Future Combat Systems modernization program would lose its armored vehicles. Plans to build a shield to defend against missile attacks by rogue states would also be scaled back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

George Bush tried to get China, Japan and South Korea to handle this problem and they’ve done a bang-up thus far. Just like he tried to let the European nations deal with iran. Isn’t that what everyone wanted? For the US to defer to the rest of the world? And what has the rest of the world accomplished? All Obama had to do to assert himself was shoot down the Nork’s missile – how could they possibly respond? But now he’s shown the world we’re scared of a starving, pushcart nation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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