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Nuclear Fantasies Given Thumbs-Up By Associated Press

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lawhawk4/05/2009 9:20:34 am PDT

Where to start with all this? Naive optimism? Drinking the kool aid? There’s absolutely no reason to believe that US disarmament is going to improve US national security, let alone lead to worldwide nuclear disarmament.

There’s no reason to believe that the missile test was a plea by the North Koreans to open dialogue either.

These are tests of the new Administration, and the Administration is failing. Instead of showing resolve, they’re showing weakness.

Instead of recognizing the limitations of the UN, they’re going to the UN to “enforce” UN SCR 1718, which prohibits North Korea from carrying out ballistic missile tests. Yeah, what good that has done. The North Koreans carry out their tests and everyone shrugs their shoulders as the North moves closer to the day when they can fire missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

And don’t think for a moment that the Iranians aren’t watching and learning everything they can about this as well. The Iranian missile tech is largely based on North Korean designs, and they too are pursuing nuclear weapons.

And Iran is far more likely to use the nuclear weapon as a first strike capability than anyone else because of their ideological and theological positions. They’ve got a jihad to win (against the US, Israel, and the Sunni Muslims), and the UN and IAEA are incapable of doing anything.

At the same time, the Obama administration is not only more than willing to toss our own nuclear weapons on the scrap heap (undermining US deterrence strategy and second-strike capability and giving rogue regimes the ability to fire single warheads to disrupt and incapacitate large areas via EMP or similar strategies), but he’s more than willing to limit deployment of missile defense systems and has called for elimination of unproven missile defense systems.

The North Koreans (and Iran by proxy) are testing the Administration, and the Administration is failing. This is real bad news.