Still Crazy After All These Years
Legal Insurrection pantses the left on Bolton, dubbed “crazy” for suggesting in the Wall Street Journal that Crazy Kim planned to test Obama, and that Obama with his Kumbayah foreign policy tendencies, might not be up to the test. (More correctly, Crazy Kim pantses the left. Legal Insurrection just points it out.)
Anyway, the good news after yesterday’s NK A-bomb test, is the world is united against the megalomaniacal mass-murdering Marilyn Monroe fan. Watch out, Kim, you’ve PO’d the Obama and the UN!
Uh oh. Kim doesn’t care, fired off two short range missiles like a couple of middle fingers as a followup to that A-mooning yesterday. Washington Post.
Sounds like someone wants more cash, fuel and grain. You know, I wish I could do that. I’ve got a big fat phone/computer/cable bill, a fat mortgage, gas and food prices are down a little but not enough when you’ve got five mouths to feed and 500 miles to drive every week. Maybe I should start a basement nuke program. For peaceful research and power generation purposes, of course. And the great thing is, when you do get all nuked up, the world’s your oyster. Or your bitch, whatever. You just need to know how to fork it!
You or your crazy kids, which this Guardian commentator suggests, is what this is all about. Bigger game afoot. Pops isn’t doing well, and there’s some jockeying underway to see who gets to carry the franchise forward.
Anyway, back to Bolton, he suggests that continuing to bend over for a guy who is thumbing his megatonnage at you is a non-starter, particularly when all the other guys, notably Iran but I’d add Russia and China, are watching.
NYT: “Obama’s options limited.” That appears to mean talk-talk won’t do it. Obama may actually need to develop a global strategy that doesn’t involve him being a patsy, I mean being better liked, and bring some heat on Russia and China.
Dan Blumenthal and Robert Kagan, Washington Post Op-Ed: All this blah-blah-blah without arming up was a dumb idea. Little to do but hope for the best now. And stop cutting missile defense, you dope.
I dunno, I have an idea. Never too late to fire up the military-industrial complex. Seems like a better way to spend 1.3 trillion dollars than endangered mouse studies and bailouts for hacks, thieves and deadbeats. It could even stimulate the economy, employ a lot of ex-auto workers. Multiple benefits. You’ll get the attention of and maybe even a little respect from the Russians, Chinese and Iranians as well. But maybe it is too late. How much of that money has already been squandered?
Topics: Kim, Korea, Obama, nukes
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:55 am Comments (1) on Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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May 26th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Jules,
Below are my comments on the situation, which I posted yesterday over to HotAir. I still think I’m correct in my assessment.
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Well,
The big question that no one seems to want to address is the amount of cooperation between North Korea and Iran. Iran claims to have thousands of centrifuges in operation. It claims to have an advanced missile in development. It DOES NOT claim that all of this is in Iran.
There is every reason to believe, based upon eyewitness reports of Iranian scientists in North Korea, and North Koreans, in Iran, that both countries are working together to develop and deploy nuclear weapons.
Add to that the Israeli destruction of a nuclear facility in Syria, and you have a dangerous state of cooperation between multiple nations, all allied against the west and willing to undertake whatever actions they deem best to further their own interests, regardless of the consequences to themselves or their nations.
Our politicians keep acting as if North Korea, Iran, and Syria, (at the least) are all independent players. I contend that they are not, and our failure to realize the confederate nature of their efforts will result in a far worse situation than what we currently envision.
Respects,