Posted on 05/25/2009 7:33:28 PM PDT by jdfromny
After NoKo's outrageous nuclear test yesterday, Powerline has an excellent post reminding us that there are some honest, clear and prophetic men among us--one of them being my hero John Bolton.
Remember when Biden said we better "gird our loins" because the world would test Urkel? I wonder if people would have reacted differently is he said we better "gird our bomb shelters"?
What John Bolton knew
The underground nucleat test announced by North Korea appears to come as something of a surprise to the Obama administration. Yet the Obama administration has acted with nothing but complacency about the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran. In a May 20 Wall Street Journal column, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton predicted:
The curtain is about to rise again on the long-running nuclear tragicomedy, "North Korea Outwits the United States." Despite Kim Jong Il's explicit threats of another nuclear test, U.S. Special Envoy Stephen Bosworth said last week that the Obama administration is "relatively relaxed" and that "there is not a sense of crisis." They're certainly smiling in Pyongyang.
Ambassador Bolton found that Bosworth and his colleagues were providing the North Koreans with nothing but encouragement:
Despite Pyongyang's aggression, Mr. Bosworth has reiterated that the U.S. is "committed to dialogue" and is "obviously interested in returning to a negotiating table as soon as we can." This is precisely what the North wants: America in a conciliatory mode, eager to bargain, just as Mr. Bush was after the 2006 test.
I think it's safe to say they're smiling in Tehran (or should I say "the Islamic Republic of Iran"?) too.
(Excerpt) Read more at tammybruce.com ...
"Bolton for President Before it's too late"
I've never heard this guy spew the usual political BS that all the rest do. And the best part is the socialists hate him with a passion!!!
What’s Bolton’s solution?
For one thing he wouldn’t be taken to the cleaners like the dems love to do with these situations.
Appeasement never works and he knows that.
Only because they don't understand how NK negotiates. That is a critical and potentially devastating lack of understanding.
How could the Obamites NOT understand this, when the average man on the street understands it, if only in broad terms?
Carter's solution is better than Obama's, that's for sure.
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Excellent potlatch
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The Obama regime is not willfully ignorant of how the tyrannical North Korea behaves in negotiations. They don't give a damn that the NKs have nukes. In fact I would say that Obama is secretly cheering them on.
Oh, goody...
Another Blog parading as News on FR........
We didn’t need Powerline to tell us...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257603/posts?page=4#4
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If I can only find them!!
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Only 13,000 to choose from?
Perhaps this wasn’t a nuclear test, instead...... a sales demonstration.
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Nothing to worry about, the UN is working on a legally binding solution. They are concerned, though, that anything involving military force will be vetoed by China.
Only if he thinks our military has a workable plan to wipe NK out without getting into a war we can’t win with the Chinese.
He want’s to be dictator, but I don’t think he wants to be taken over by other dictators.
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