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Meeker Morgan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-11-09 05:14 PM
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It's Your Country Too, Mr. President (Washington Post)
It's Your Country Too, Mr. President (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/09/AR2009040903367_pf.html

In his major foreign policy address in Prague committing the United States to a world without nuclear weapons, President Obama took note of North Korea's missile launch just hours earlier and then grandiloquently proclaimed:

"Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something. The world must stand together to prevent the spread of these weapons. Now is the time for a strong international response."

A more fatuous presidential call to arms is hard to conceive. What "strong international response" did Obama muster to North Korea's brazen defiance of a Chapter 7 -- "binding," as it were -- U.N. resolution prohibiting such a launch?

-- SNIP --



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gcomeau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-11-09 05:15 PM
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1. Why?
What point is there in posting an article by that moron Krauthammer?
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-11-09 05:20 PM
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2. What would Krauthammer suggest?
Why "America's unique technological edge in missile defenses" of course. So to neutralize North Korea, this mouth for PNAC et al wants to stick missile batteries in Poland. That'll teach those Korean bastards. And of course it will pour hundreds of billions more into the cesspool known as the MIC.

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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-11-09 05:39 PM
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4. If Charles Krauthammer tells you the water's deep ...
wade ... don't dive ...
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bbinacan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-11-09 06:55 PM
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6. That's not funny
and in very poor taste.
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Meeker Morgan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-11-09 06:50 PM
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5. I was thinking something like that. n/t
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-11-09 05:25 PM
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3. Tsk. Mr Krauthammer seems most unhappy.
:popcorn::popcorn:
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