Multilateralism Fails Again

Obama spoke in Prague today, urging the world to stop nuclear proliferation. The leader of the world's last superpower, the bastion of liberty, the storehouse of freedom, once again demeaned the prestige of his own nation, diminished his own office, and went begging to a world that looks for the US to lead. North Korea launched a missile against the admonishments of most of the world (except Iran which is a close confederate of North Korea in efforts to achieve weapons of mass destruction and the capacity to deliver them). Japan's defense needs, South Korea's security requirements, and overwhelming world public opinion are all well and good, but the United States was the one nation that could obliterate North Korea's military capacity in minutes. A strong leader, which Obama is not, would have destroyed the North Korean missile on the launchpad. If an action is in the strategic interests of the United States, America must act decisively and unilaterally if necessary. She can not wait to sway world sentiment or for a few troops as a token of support from other countries; America must act in her own interests to protect herself and allies either to weak or fearful to defend themselves. We now have a leader in Obama who is going to cut the national budget in only one area, he plans massive cuts to defense and even reduction on the route to hoped for elimination of our own nuclear capacity. With two active wars, Afghanistan and Iraq, the nebulous world-wide war on terror to win, and Iran threatening to go nuclear, Obama plans to shrink defense. Obama has what he considers high ideals regarding a world free of nukes. In this world, China would either rapidly conquer us or be able to dictate to us as we could no longer meet our security commitments and needs against the vastly more numerous conventional forces of the Reds who would take Taiwan and dominate the world. Obama does not recognize strategic balance and his naive policies will advance evil and tyranny across the globe.