It would be hard to imagine President Obama ever standing only a few feet from the North Korean border and warning its leaders that if they ever used nuclear weapons, “it would be the end of their country.”
Mr. Obama is not the threatening kind. He prefers “soft” power to win over his adversaries. In fact, after North Korea’s May 25 test of a bomb close in size to the one dropped on Hiroshima, he said the US would merely “work with our friends and allies to stand up to this behavior.”
What a contrast to the last Democratic president.
It was President Clinton who actually spoke those threatening “hard power” words – within earshot of North Korean soldiers – in 1993.
At the time, Pyongyang was revving up its nuclear-bomb program.
Mr. Clinton knew something back then that Obama is learning on the job: Tough talk against an enemy is sometimes needed simply to reassure America’s allies that the US will live up to its defense promises. Those commitments include its unique role to provide nuclear deterrence, or promised retaliation, if an ally is attacked.
By his actions and his words, Obama is sending worrisome signals to Japan and South Korea that they might be left alone in a confrontation with North Korea or even perhaps China.
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It would be even harder to imagine Omaba ever doing anything his teleprompter spoke.
Sooner or later, someone’s gonna play a Ron Burgundy teleprompter gig on him (YouTube it if you don’t understand). When it happens….ohhhhhhhh
Soft power is no power. Wouldn’t it be a hoot if our enemies saved us from ourselves, by making so much trouble that O’Blanko couldn’t handle that it would be obvious we had to replace him. The only problem is, with whom? Even though we have a few Conservatives who would be acceptable, there isn’t the kind of organization that is necessary, and which the Left has been working on for decades.