Barack Obama is weak and reckless.

Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News.

Memo to Barack Obama, Kim Jong-il and Ahmadinejad don’t give a hoot what you think.  After detonating a “test” nuke, it was nice to see Mr. Hope and Change come out and condemn it (after following prompts from China and Russia) and followed up by hastily tossing the matter off to the UN.  Way to lead Mr. President. 

Last week Benjamin Netanyahu paid Washington a visit.  Without a doubt he voiced his terrible concerns with regard to Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.  After all, Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric hasn’t exactly been reasonable whilst he’s chased down “the bomb”.  Barack Obama is the biggest advocate of the two state solution to ever hold the office of President of the United States, and it doesn’t matter a lick.  The tiny tyrant is unimpressed.  Iran does as it likes, Ahmadinejad continues to make threats and what does Obama tell Netanyahu?  He says that he wants progress with Iran on nuclear weapons by the end of the year.  I wonder if Barack Obama would be so cavalier if nuclear weapons were being installed in Cuba and Castro was threatening to wipe Florida off of the map.  Somehow I’m not convinced that he’d do much of anything to stop it.  Hey Mr. Putin, you might want to finish what Khrushchev started. 

Who is spearheading the Obama effort on North Korea?  Hillary Clinton?  No.  It seems that the Secretary of State is being relegated to second fiddle while we pass the buck to the UN and to Susan Rice, who by my estimate is a neophyte.  Remember this is the woman that said that neither Clinton or Obama were ready for a “3 AM call” during the campaign.  Isn’t it nice to know that Ms. Rice is bringing her own brand of naivete to reining in North Korea?  Rice isn’t ready for a call, period.  Watching her on the morning talk circuit this morning inspired no sense of confidence within me… and today, the missiles continue to fly despite all of the “condemnations”.

This is madness.  Nuclear proliferation was poised to become epidemic, unfortunately the election of Barack Obama has made what was going to be a tough job (stopping it/slowing it) impossible.  Meanwhile, in Pakistan… the Taliban marches on. 

Sooner or later we have to expect this president to commit to a course of action on SOMETHING.  Giving away the store and bankrupting tax payers for the next half a century somehow now seems irrelevant in the scope of wondering if this guy is going to twiddle his thumbs on the road to Armaggedon. 

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