Posted by
Pete Zimmerman on Monday, May 25, 2009 10:11:58 AM
Our pot-bellied friend in North Korea is at it again - this time testing a nuclear bomb underground. The Russian say it was as large as one of the bombs we dropped on Japan during World War II! With that being the case I'm sure that our letter from the U.N. will be much more strongly worded this time around - yeah, that will show them!
All kidding aside, it is time to see what the Obama Administration is really made of, and how they deal with this crisis will show us and the world. If they do nothing - i.e., write that strongly worded letter, we will know that Dick Cheney was right, we are much less safe today than we were under the Bush Administration.
If on the other hand they take strong action, including as former Ambassador Bolton suggested this morning, at a minimum throwing North Korea out of the U.N. for its continued violations, then we will see the side of them we did not know they had - tough.
Throwing them out of the U.N. has to be the minimum, several other sanctions and even military pressure are called for in this situation. Let's hope we don't end up listening to the late night comics mocking a limp wristed response from the Obama Administration like we did last time.