No Serious Effort

Continuing on yesterday's theme of thwarting the world's terror states, I feel increasing alarm that no one is making a concerted thrust in this regard with the bulk of the globe either in sympathy with Iran and North Korea, in fear of them, or figuring some other nation or body will take charge, or simply letting events develop on their own course without rocking the slowly sinking boat. As far as the meek sanctions package that the United Nations Security Council passed, two of Iran's neighbors Turkey and Pakistan seem determined to ignore them with Pakistan just agreeing to a massive natural gas deal with Iran and Turkey under Erdogan's leadership increasingly standing in the Islamist camp. Iran apparently is still devoting enormous national resources to produce atomic weapons apace and improving her missile capacity to deliver them. Only Israel (which may actually be more isolated than Iran) stands in opposition as Israelis realize they are the first though by no means the only target in Iran's sights. There is a more unified front standing against North Korean excesses with South Korea joined by Japan and the tripwire US force still stationed in the DMZ. But make no mistake, the international community is divided even here with more than a good chance that Communist China will continue to back Pyongyang. So much of the world is gripped by the mentality of the appeaser even as North Korea fatally lashes out at the South's navy, the United States is reluctant to act, the world's democracies seem craven, the multilateral international bodies are so corrupted that they are loathe to confront a real extant axis of evil (which could also be said to include the military leaders of Burma). With most of the world willfully abdicating their security responsibility, which ironically makes war, indeed global conflict, much more likely, South Korea and Israel, which is now, incongruously, the one nation widely shunned and regarded as the pariah state, are left to fend for themselves.