North Korea 'Broke the Rules Again,' President Obama Charges While Calling for End to Nuclear Arms

While President Obama calls for a nuke free world, and unilaterally agreed to reduce the US weapons cache, Obama also said, "North Korea broke the rules again." Is he listening to himself?

So what, exactly, are we doing and why? Why, for example, are we unilaterally willing to shelve, or at least delay, the missile defense shield deployment in Poland? It is apparent that the missile defense system has had some success, and that's just what is unclassified and is very old information; it is likely to be far more successful today than we know. Most importantly, North Korea has proven that we need a missile defense system. Iran has proven, just months before, that we need a missile defense system. And neither of these countries has shown the slightest inclination to obey any "rules" or stop trying to develop nuclear weapons. And what about Syria or some coup in Pakistan; what are our defenses then?

We can only hope that President Obama is not so far to the left that he has the misguided belief that if we unilaterally reduce weapons and decline the use of a missile defense system against these rogue nations (that are getting help and encouragement, even in the UN, from both Russia and China), that he is making us safer. If Obama emasculates us as the Europeans have emasculated their own once-great societies, it is over for the West.

sherlock Holmes of NH 1:57PM April 06, 2009

Newt Gingrich is an idiot. A preemptive strike would be an act of war, and with a two front war already straining the American military, the Republicans would have to give up Iraq to do the right thing and stop North Korea before they can launch a missile that poses a threat to American National Security. But that probably won't happen. They'd lose too much money doing the right thing.

Wayne of TN 12:42PM April 06, 2009