Will The Left Apologize To Bolton?

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/05/will-left-apologize-to-bolton.html


On May 20, 2009, John Bolton wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal titled "Get Ready for Another North Korean Nuke Test" in which he noted that the complacency of the Obama administration about North Korea's nuclear ambitions (and Iran's) was misplaced:

"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."

Of course the short answer is "NO".

And now we have this:

Defying world powers, N. Korea conducts nuke test

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090525/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea defied world powers and carried out an underground test Monday of a nuclear bomb Russian officials said was comparable to those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The incident drew condemnation from Washington to Beijing and set the communist regime up for a showdown with the United Nations.

And this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090525/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran

TEHRAN, Iran – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proposed on Monday a face-to-face debate with President Barack Obama at the United Nations if he is re-elected next month as Iran's president.

But he balanced the offer with a sharp rebuke to Washington and its allies over Iran's nuclear program. He reiterated that Iran would never abandon its advances in uranium enrichment in exchange for offers of easing sanctions or other economic incentives.

The nuclear issue "is closed," he told a news conference.

In the real world, talking and a reluctance to fight means 'weakness'.

I hope and pray that Obama will learn this lesson before it's too late.