Obama adviser: North Korea not an imminent threat to the US
posted at 9:27 am on May 28, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
The strategy on North Korea at the White House continues to shift in an odd direction. First, Barack Obama called North Korea a “regional threat” after its missile launch in April, and this week declared the nation a threat to global peace after its nuclear test. Now Obama’s national security adviser James Jones say’s they’re not an imminent threat at all, despite Kim Jong-Il’s rejection of the 56-year truce — and the 25,000 American soldiers on the other side of the DMZ:
President Obama’s national security adviser on Wednesday said that North Korea’s recent nuclear detonation and subsequent missile tests are not “an imminent threat” to the safety and security of the United States.
Retired Marine Corps Gen. James Jones, in his first speech on the administration’s approach to national security, said that the “imminent threat” posed by North Korea is that of the proliferation of nuclear technologies to other countries and terrorist organizations.
North Korea still has “a long way” to “weaponize” and work on the delivery of its nuclear missiles before they pose a threat to U.S. security, Jones said in a discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council.
“Nothing that the North Koreans did surprised us,” Jones said. “We knew that they were going to do this, they said so, so no reason not to believe them.”
Pardon me, but I’d say that any nation that threatened the lives of 25,000 American soldiers is by definition an imminent threat to the United States. In fact, that’s exactly the reason we have stationed those troops on the DMZ. We have them set up as a tripwire to keep Kim from overrunning the DMZ and capturing Seoul by making it clear that we consider any such threat as aimed at the US as well as South Korea.
Even beyond that, Kim’s ICBM capabilities have grown over the last few years, as his latest launch demonstrated. His Taepodong missiles have a theoretical range that takes them into the continental US, and a practical range that includes Hawaii and Alaska. Last time I checked, those both were part of the US, not to mention the various territories we still control in the Pacific west of Hawaii. Maybe Kim hasn’t figured a way to attach a nuke to one — the nuclear test this week makes that a questionable assumption, as North Korea would probably only be testing warhead nukes anyway — but even a conventional warhead would be an “imminent threat” if it hit Honolulu.
Has the Obama administration settled on a strategy of apathy? Does he think ignoring Kim will make him go away? I have to admit that no one has tried that strategy with North Korea, perhaps because no one has been crazy enough to think it will work. At what point will they stop playing golf and start considering Kim an imminent threat? When he plants his flag in Seoul?
At least that explains the four-hour round of golf as a response to the nuclear test.
Update: Gaurav in the comments makes a good point:
Main threat from NK is proliferation to failed or rogue states and from there to Jihadi orgs.
Yes, and that became imminent with the first successful nuclear test.
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Future quote, after Iran drops a nuke on Tel Aviv:
Phoenician on May 28, 2009 at 9:32 AM
Ed,
Just want to make a point not being discussed elsewhere. Main threat from NK is proliferation to failed or rogue states and from there to Jihadi orgs.
Gaurav on May 28, 2009 at 9:32 AM
Jones is anti-Israel, a political buttkisser and a real pimp.
Now he’s revealed himself as a moron as well.
TexasJew on May 28, 2009 at 9:32 AM
lol
Xolom on May 28, 2009 at 9:33 AM
I seem to recall several reports closer to the time of the attack which seem to contradict this assertion.
Were they or were they not surprised? If the “knew” the test, dropping the truce etc. were coming, why not get the ball rolling ahead of time to mitigate the issue? That would be truly “smart diplomacy.”
Sounds like a CYA statement here to me.
cs89 on May 28, 2009 at 9:33 AM
/liberal snob
SouthernGent on May 28, 2009 at 9:33 AM
I hope this is why Obama is saying the DPRK is not an imminent threat – because he plans to pull all U.S. military forces out of the peninsula right away.
The sentiment in South Korea is decidedly anti-American, and has been for many years. We don’t need to be there.
jaime on May 28, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Oops. “attack” should be “test.”
cs89 on May 28, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Now who is it that is not connecting the dots?
PappaMac on May 28, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Last night’s PBS panel discussing N.Korea included Jimmy Carter’s Advisor to the President on National Security Affairs, Jan. 23, 1977-Jan. 20, 1981 Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Brzezinski’s gem: “Well, China and Russia are not really our allies.”
maverick muse on May 28, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Golf? Not hoops this time?
He’s taking the OJ route. OJ played golf when he was supposed to be on the “manhunt” to find the real killer.
ErinF on May 28, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Murtha:
“Redeploy our troops in SK to Okinawa!”
jgapinoy on May 28, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Ya and the media will inform people that Obama warned us about NORK’s imminent threat, if they attack.
artist on May 28, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Oh, well. When Kim starts bombing, BO will just blame it all on Bush. You know that’s the way it will play out.
ErinF on May 28, 2009 at 9:39 AM
and Kim could launch a few conventional ICBMs at Okinawa, Guam, Yokuska, Pearl harbor, etc in addition to his 10k artillery pieces aimed at Seoul. Nope, not an iminent threat.
todler on May 28, 2009 at 9:40 AM
I wonder if they give Iran’s genocidal threats against Israel the same credibility???
ProfessorMiao on May 28, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Obama’s national security cred is a joke. His latest campaign: open secrets.
flipflop on May 28, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Can we overthrow B.O. yet? Or do we have to be bombed first and million have to die before this can happen?
ErinF on May 28, 2009 at 9:41 AM
I believe Obama knows North Korea is a threat. It’s just a matter of priorities. Obama needs to focus on the more pressing threats – conservatives, free market economy, liberty, those kind of things.
Daggett on May 28, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Proud Rino: “HA readers say stupid things.”
/notpayingattention
bluelightbrigade on May 28, 2009 at 9:41 AM
And one of those is my son, dammit. I hate The Precedent.
ladyingray on May 28, 2009 at 9:42 AM
People, you’re missing the big picture here, if Carl Sagan was right and a nuke war would cause a nuclear winter, then we’ve solved the problem of global warming haven’t we? And it would go a long way in solving the whole overpopulation problem as well. Obama thinks five steps ahead..
Ann NY on May 28, 2009 at 9:42 AM
As a previous president said, if you wait until a threat becomes imminent before doing something about it, you have waited too long.
MarkTheGreat on May 28, 2009 at 9:43 AM
We should get out of South Korea while the getting is good.
jaime on May 28, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Idiot.
EnochCain on May 28, 2009 at 9:44 AM
The nuclear blast and ensuing fallout is relative to the size of the country. Apparently.
rollthedice on May 28, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Just let it be known that we’re ok with our Japanese allies having nukes and this will all go away. China doesn’t like us being there (DMZ) but China shouldn’t be calling the shots…but with Obamoron I’m afraid they will be.
DCJeff on May 28, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Good to see that the adults are in charge now.
OT, Clinton was surprised by two countries becoming nuclear powers. I think the smarterest intelligentest administration of Obama will be surprised by four to five.
jukin on May 28, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Not a threat? Really?
So we just tell out troop in the DMZ to STFU b/c the REMFs in the WH get their intel from NORK press reports?
Niiiccceee.
(sorry for all of the acronyms)
Also…assuming the NORKs plant a mushroom cloud in Japan sometime…what do TOTUS’ advisors think will happen to the Japanese auto industry that is currently providing a lot of jobs for a lot of people in the US?
bluelightbrigade on May 28, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Believe Jones at your own peril . . . it was that same naive mindlessness that precipitated the election of Obama.
rplat on May 28, 2009 at 9:46 AM
I know, I know…Obama doesn’t care about American jobs.
bluelightbrigade on May 28, 2009 at 9:47 AM
And one of those is my son, dammit. I hate The Precedent.
ladyingray on May 28, 2009 at 9:42 AM
I hope that Obama either steps up or pulls all of the troops out. My late father fought in Korea…I wonder what he would have thought of all of this after so many years.
DCJeff on May 28, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Hitler wasn’t an “imminent” threat either in 1935 or so, but be certainly became imminently threatening within a few years, and that was without nookyaler weapons.
911 showed us that the oceans no longer provide a barrier to our enemies, this isn’t about having hidden coast-watchers scanning the seas with binoculars trying to find the enemy flattops.
By the time North Korea becomes an imminent threat, it will be far too late, but I suspect that is exactly what Ogabe wants, for America to be brought down a few notches because he doesn’t much care for his own nation.
And yes, BOR, you can reference that if you like.
Bishop on May 28, 2009 at 9:51 AM
LibTired (KO) on May 28, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Plus they don’t spend much of their budget on the military compared to us, so how could they possibly be a threat?
Tune in tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel, and you’ll see this adviser or the president do a complete 180!
OneGyT on May 28, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Well, it’s not an imminent threat because Obama and his team of brainiacs have yet to figure out how to use this type of crisis.
With all this new debt, we have even less sway with the Chinese, too.
They all know Obama is weak and clueless, and that China has him by his balls when it comes to financing his socialist schemes.
Meanwhile Nancy effing Pelosi is over in China prattling on about Global Warming. Are you kidding me?
reaganaut on May 28, 2009 at 9:53 AM
You are being too hard on him – those comments were made on different days.
/
Vashta.Nerada on May 28, 2009 at 9:53 AM
What is unbelievable is how many people don’t know and understand that the US is still at war with North Korea and just have an armistice now. I guess Mr. Jones was educated in the US school system, so he probably does not know this fact but should in his new position.
Now based on that fact how can anyone, especially someone who is suppose to be a national security adviser that is suppose to know this, claim a country we are at war with is not a threat?
JeffinSac on May 28, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Our Dictator will use any nuke attack here, or similar crisis, to further consolidate his power.
faraway on May 28, 2009 at 9:55 AM
And the Obama Admin. continues to row further down the river denial…….
Yakko77 on May 28, 2009 at 9:56 AM
I’m I the only one who finds it ironic that a man named Jim Jones works for Obama?
thomasaur on May 28, 2009 at 9:56 AM
Yay! I get linked by HA. Ed, not to be anal but it is Gaurav and not Guarav (‘Gau’ pronounced like ‘Cow’ and ‘rav’ pronounced like ‘Raw’)
Gaurav on May 28, 2009 at 9:56 AM
Obama thinks Kim is a girl. What can a girl do to him?
keep the change on May 28, 2009 at 9:56 AM
We only NEED to be where we are adored? Pull out the military from defending San Francisco.
We should abandon presence wherever we are not fully appreciated? Then jaime, quit posting @ HotAir.
After WWII, sentiment in Germany and Japan were decidedly anti-American. Using your logic, we should have let Russia have it all.
You ought to read yesterday’s HotAir headline article from Iraq and Lebanon from Michael Totten. Deciding where to be should never be determined based upon mere popularity. And getting local support requires properly enhancing local 1:1 relations between an occupying force and the indigenous population.
That S.Korea doesn’t appreciate what they begged to have from the USA amounts to their own racism coupled with their readiness to launch into a Fascist coop Korea.
As per Korea, it’s a CHINA problem that CHINA won’t deal with. The other night, Michael Savage had a caller who’s researched Korea as his career specialty since 1971. China won’t face down N.Korea because of the “face” involved in honoring those Chinese who sacrificed their own sense of divine right to get China on track economically to actually go and do the fighting to preserve N.Korea. “Correcting” N.Korean misbehavior now goes against the Chinese interior self sense of “harmony”. (As coincidence goes, that show went into dead air in Central Texas following the ad break; Savage was holding the caller over for further discussion.)
But as Brzezinski put it so clearly last night, China is not our ally. China is Korea’s ally. And N.Korea is most certainly the enemy of the USA.
So what our military chooses to do in order to preserve the USA should not be determined by contemporary popularity polls.
During Bush’s presidency, the Left whined that Bush was not facing down Kim Jong-il on his own, mano e mano. They said Bush should pull out of Iraq and deal with North Korea, the REAL threat. So by their own dictum, Obama must face down Kim Jong-il without relying on an alliance with the local powers that include China and Japan in that world region.
maverick muse on May 28, 2009 at 9:57 AM
They are adrift in the strong current without any means of propulsion.
thomasaur on May 28, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Just want to clarify Ed – those troops are DETERRENT in nature. They demonstrate to the Norks that we have skin in the game if they come accross.
But they ARE NOT going to attempt to fight back the Norks if they do come accross. They will high-tail it to points South – South of Seoul. They’ll harrass the Norks as they advance – but the real strategy there is to move U.S. reinforcements into the Peninsula if we decide to fight them.
There’s really nothing that can stop a “blitzkrieg” Nork charge accross the DMZ – they have way too much manpower and hardware – and it’s of the reasons their people are starving.
HondaV65 on May 28, 2009 at 9:59 AM
You don’t know what you are talking about.
99.99% of the South Koreans want US troops in South Korea.
The other 0.01% are North Korean sympathizers who like to come out on Saturday, wear their red bandannas, shake the fists to the music like good commies, and get their photographs taken by MSM.
slp on May 28, 2009 at 9:59 AM
I don’t think South Korea is in danger — YET. Right now, I think Kim is simply trying to deal with the country’s extreme poverty by selling nukes to places like Iran.
Daggett on May 28, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Am I the only one that detects a whiff of Baghdad Bob in that statement?
Reporter: Sir, the North Koreans have just sunk a US Navy ship off the coast of South Korea and have begun landing troops behind the DMZ. What will the US response be?
Jones: NEVER! The South Koreans have ground them into dust! The US warship was not sunk. It was only part of our plan to make North Korea think they were winning. Very soon we will be roasting their bellies in hell!
Onus on May 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM
maybe Lil’ Kim is planning on going the “Under Siege” scenario?
stormin1961 on May 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Actually, as of yesterday, the armistice is officially off according to North Korea.
AUINSC on May 28, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Whew! Now I can breathe easy. For a second there I thought that his threats against S Korea and our troops there were actually, you know, threatening. Now I see that our gubmint has it all under control! /s
Christian Conservative on May 28, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Are you saying we are AT WAR with North Korea since yesterday and nobody told us?
faraway on May 28, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Regional? I thought we were citizens of the world, Barry…
That’s more like it. Pump out that Wilsonian doctrine!!!
Teh One will ask of you to surrender your common sense and believe whatever his servants tell you. It’s for the best of Teh One’s Herd.
Upstater85 on May 28, 2009 at 10:04 AM
oH, is THAT all we need to worry about? Well, when you put it that way……. “I think a six iron from here should do get me to the green…”
Fed45 on May 28, 2009 at 10:04 AM
classic
:)
mankai on May 28, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Has the Obama administration settled on a strategy of apathy? Does he think ignoring Kim will make him go away?
Q: Are you ignorant or apathetic?
A: I don’t know and I don’t care.
Obviously Obama has not surrounded himself with the best minds.
Right_of_Attila on May 28, 2009 at 10:05 AM
He’s rolling the dice. If you say they aren’t a threat, you don’t have to expend energy dealing with them.
Odds are that nothing will happen. Of course if you actually live in Seoul or Tel Aviv, those odds might not be long enough.
If this gamble comes up snake-eyes, a lot of people are going to die. But I don’t think that keeps anyone in the White House up at night.
Asher on May 28, 2009 at 10:05 AM
You probably don’t understand just how irresponsible that statement is.
First – the Nork’s have a huge and pretty powerful military. However, it’s usefullness is offset by the fact that it can’t be employed for very long – because the North Korean nation doesn’t have the resources to keep it going for very long.
However – if the Nork’s got ahold of the very rich South – we have a game changer. We have a huge, beligerent military – with resources backing it.
Second – if we just pulled out of South Korea right now – we’d only be doing it because we fear the Norks. The rest of the world would see that – and we’d be immediately challenged in other theaters. The Chinese could decide to take Taiwan. The Russians could move into all of Georgia and Ukraine.
HondaV65 on May 28, 2009 at 10:05 AM
umm, isn’t that exactly what jones said?
sesquipedalian on May 28, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Well, the North Koreans told us. But I guess we’re not too worried about what they say.
AUINSC on May 28, 2009 at 10:06 AM
“Creating jobs”
For criminals
For corrupt politicians
For green industries regulated to produce inept products
For a bigger federal government
For statist vs. Constitutional law enforcement
Otherwise, Obama creates jobs for foreigners in foreign lands where Americans are NOT welcome.
maverick muse on May 28, 2009 at 10:06 AM
No, they are at war with the US and another Democrat president refuses to aknowledge that fact.
thomasaur on May 28, 2009 at 10:07 AM
oH, is THAT all we need to worry about? Well, when you put it that way……. “I think a six iron from here should do get me to the green…”
Fed45 on May 28, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Nope, today is “Hoops Thursday” when Ogabe forces one of his secret service guys to lose to him in a game of one-on-one.
The last guy Ogabe played against failed to play fair and allow him to win, and that agent is now investigating wire-fraud complaints in Duluth, MN.
Bishop on May 28, 2009 at 10:07 AM
ha!
“My security advisors keep talking about Lil’ Kim. I keep telling them to focus on national security matters and stop listening to her music”
Fed45 on May 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM
South Korea is a democracy, a friend and an ally. North Korea is a real threat to the South. Is this how our Dear Leader treats our friends and fellow democracies? Oh right, I should just ask Gordon Brown.
This president is a disaster.
rbj on May 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Mr. Jones, Why should we believe that you’re not just playing CYA?
what is the Obama administrations definition of imminent?
5 mins,5 hours,5 days……….
A crackpot dictator with ‘the’ bomb is a threat. Screw the imminent part. Isn’t it now time to stop running off at the mouth and actually do something?
oldernwiser on May 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM
A comment from a redeploying member of our armed forces I see…
DamnYankee on May 28, 2009 at 10:09 AM
+10
Upstater85 on May 28, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Newsflash … We’ve been at war with North Korea since before you were born probably. The war never ended – only an armistance was put into place – basically we’ve been at “cease fire” for what? Almost five decades?
I know that, in the Navy, the first thing we were reminded of each and every time one of my ships pulled into South Korea was the fact that “This country is still at war with North Korea”.
Do we teach this fact in the liberal-controlled school systems here in America? Of course not – and why would we? We have more important things to educate our kids about – like Global Warming and identity politics.
HondaV65 on May 28, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Exactly. I believe breaking the armistice is, strictly speaking, an act of war. When they broke it, they declared war on the US.
Daggett on May 28, 2009 at 10:15 AM
AUINSC on May 28, 2009 at 10:01 AM
If technically a “conflict” the Democrats will simply deny that the US was ever at WAR with N.Korea, only aiding S.Korea that no longer is making demands for our aid. Treaties, the armistice, words, just words. After all, what armistice goes unbroken? The Left will simply deny any relevance, merely some detail assigned to the dusty bloody annals of history, much like discrediting the US Constitution as the supreme law of the land–as if it only applied in the late 18th Century.
double-speak revisionism
maverick muse on May 28, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Obama’s setting the stage to walk away from South Korea. If he takes heat for it, he’ll say that his hands are tied, that our involvement in Iraq (especially) and Afghanistan just make it impossible for us to defend our commitments to South Korea.
His economic advisors will tout the destruction of South Korea as a pro-growth initiative for the American economy.
hawksruleva on May 28, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Not only that, it was a UN war.
Stop laughing.
reaganaut on May 28, 2009 at 10:17 AM
The White House seems to think they’re being clever in a Bobby Kennedy/Cuban Missile Crisis sort of way (or in a Clintonesque “Depends on the meaning of ‘is’” way) by redefining the parameters of “immanent threat”.
Bobby got credit for defusing the ’62 crisis by ignoring Khruschev’s more belligerent second letter and going with the first offer. But at least it was an offer. The Obama people are taking the violation of North Korea’s treaties by Kim and trying to defuse the situation by saying this new aggressiveness is not a problem. Moving the goalposts and saying the combination of nuclear tests and missile launches is not a threat is simply an effort to wish the problem away, and is as likely to have as much long-term success as the U.S. pretending the trials and convictions against the 1993 World Trade Center bombers solved that problem.
jon1979 on May 28, 2009 at 10:19 AM
True, but when something happens at least they can’t say they weren’t warned…well, of course they will say it, but it’s easy to disprove.
AUINSC on May 28, 2009 at 10:19 AM
A unified Korea wouldn’t be rich for long. Kim isn’t interested in harnessing the power of capitalism the way China is. He’d loot South Korea, and then (like some other leaders we know) be surprised that the prosperity evaporated under the wait of his confiscatory policies.
Totally agree about the US being challenged on other fronts. I almost feel sorry for the al-Qaeda, because they’ll become a back-burner issue once Russia and China start filling their pockets. My guess is that the Chinese Navy’s first job would be to escort an invasion force to Africa in order to supply their ravenous economy.
hawksruleva on May 28, 2009 at 10:22 AM
The administration is dysfunctional, therefore I give no credence to its ministrations.
The threat is real and the man(iac) ‘Dear Leader’ cannot be trusted. Kim will do anything that strokes his ego and with his current state of health he literally has nothing to loose. However, the rest of the country has nothing to gain from the actions of there ‘Dear Leader’.
The situation of the North vs South is simple. The North has the mineral wealth, the South the technological know how to extract that wealth to benefit the entire peninsula. The only thing standing between the countries is Kim and his military regime, and Kim knows that.
After the ‘Dear Leader’ the military must be dismantled before the citizens of the North will be able to enjoy reunification.
MSGTAS on May 28, 2009 at 10:23 AM
The UN is so angry with North Korea, they have half a mind to write another strongly worded resolution. Make the UN REALLY mad, and they might even call the North Koreans “doody heads.”
Daggett on May 28, 2009 at 10:26 AM
…and around the same time Jones was saying that DPRK’s not a threat, the US put its forces in the region on alert.
S. Korea, US troops on alert after North’s threats
How’s that work exactly? “Attention all US forces in the region, raise your alert level high, but don’t worry because there’s no threat.” “Go to alert level XYZ because there is no threat.” “The American people and the world can rest easy because there’s no threat, but US forces should be on alert.
Look, I’m no expert, but let’s face reality: this is an internal regime change/power struggle between Kim’s not-fully-groomed-for -power son and the general(s) running the country. It’s gonna happen sooner or later, and this is what it will look like. It’s also identical to what happened when Kim Il Jong replaced Kim Il Sung in the 90′s.
The danger here is that whoever is sabre rattling and puffing up feathers to look tough…could go too far & start a war; a war they’ve prepared to fight for half a century. Some people believe nuclear wars can be limited-even winnable. They are extremists, but they exist, and they look the exact same as DPRK leaders do.
scottm on May 28, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Upstater85 on May 28, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Thanks for agreeing, and though I agree that Obama is utilizing Fascism, he is setting himself up to be MORE than Hitler. Wilson began what FDR augmented, that Mussolini and Hitler each enlarged motivating into their two world wars. But since posterity got hooked on anti-nationalism by the surviving Socialists, the current Socialists have simply lurched directly into the Global Dictatorship. Today’s Fascist neo-aristocrats abuse power to trump Enlightenment, Reason, separation of powers and the US Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights.
BTW, no problem, but when inserting words into quotations [brackets] seem to be the eye catcher for an insertion vs. (parenthesis) that could be attributed as part of the original text.
maverick muse on May 28, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Has Obama apologized to North Korea yet? Maybe that’s why they’re sabre rattling.
scalleywag on May 28, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Y’all are missing the important stories, man:
1. The “scandal” about American Idol and calls or some such crap.
2. Obama claims he’s saved the economy and pulled it “back from the brink” (despite all evidence to the contrary)
3. Also did y’all know that Michelle Obama is HOTTTTT.
What’s a pesky little war with a country that now has ICBM’s pointed at American troops and states like Hawaii and Alaska? Who cares? It’s just a regional conflict with no actual consequences to anyone.
Hey, look, a puppy!!!
/ do i have to add the MSM is an idiot tag?
mjk on May 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Wonder if he’ll use the same line when Iran strikes Israel.
IrishEi on May 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM
AUINSC on May 28, 2009 at 10:19 AM
You know I’m with you.
As per proof, it’s already there.
But “easy” to disprove–yes, to anyone with any logical sense. That does not include the MSM and our Democrat Majority.
maverick muse on May 28, 2009 at 10:34 AM
And they’re gonna totes pass a resolution against Israel. Even though Israel has nothing to do with this one. It just seems quid pro quo at this point that the UN pass a couple of resolutions against Israel for the hell of it.
mjk on May 28, 2009 at 10:35 AM
I think we are headed for one hell of a war.
-Dave
Dave R. on May 28, 2009 at 10:35 AM
That’s how I feel about the current administration.
thomasaur on May 28, 2009 at 10:35 AM
My son was stationed on the DMZ and his girl friend is now. He siad that in the event of a land assult he had no excape; it was likely a fight and die situation. This is getting a bit personal for our family.
I was also amazed that early on there were no reports of our military going to a higher alert status. Another son working at a US base did not see an increased alert status yesterday. Since NoKo was rescinded its agreement to the cease fire, we are technically at war again.
I also worry about the crews of the ships and aircraft checking out the nuclear blast and missile launches. With planes and ships along the NoKo coastline taking air samples to estimate the size of the nuclear blast, I would think we would increase our alert status and be prepared to protect those surveillance aircraft and ships. We didn’t with the USS Pueblo and the shoot down of the U.S. RC-135 surveillance aircraft 30 or so years ago. No lessons learned?
amr on May 28, 2009 at 10:35 AM
Yes.
On a lighter note, what will Biden say?
He no longer has a super-secret bunker.
maverick muse on May 28, 2009 at 10:38 AM
We have been at war with North Korea since 1950 and what North Korea announced yesterday was that they was no longer going to honor the armistice (this is a ceasefire agreement)the US signed with them back in 1953.
It is sad what they are teaching in schools when people don’t know and understand this fact. The media did touch on this when they reported about, but I guess most people can’t connect the dots on what it meant.
JeffinSac on May 28, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Sick.
Obama’s 21st Century re-enacting in S.Korea the FDR prelude to Pearl Harbor. Obama’s response: S.Korea is NOT American territory; the US gets what it deserves because all Americans are ugly, only citizens of the world are beautiful; retreat to where we “belong”.
maverick muse on May 28, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Everyone needs a hobby.
Daggett on May 28, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Don’t you know that little spat with NK was a “police action”. I can see this mind set hasn’t changed.
How does he know NK is still “a long way” to “weaponize” ICBMs. Do we have spies in NK with inside intel or something. It is a deadly game to have educated guess in this instances.
Clyde5445 on May 28, 2009 at 10:44 AM
The Norks are an unwelcome distraction to Dear Leader.
Therefore they aren’t a threat.
Foreign policy is so easy, isn’t it?
wildcat84 on May 28, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Sort of like the armistace that was signed with Iraq, that Saddam then proceeded to break?
MarkTheGreat on May 28, 2009 at 10:47 AM
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