Please check out these two outstanding articles in National Review Online (Part I and Part II) written by my good friend, Reggie Gibbs. His account is truly fascinating.
Posts Tagged ‘North Korea’
Hope is Not A Nuclear Strategy
Just nine months after taking office, the Obama administration has already earned a failing grade on matters of nuclear policy. In the span of a single week in September, the Obama administration abandoned long-standing plans to deploy a third missile defense site in Europe and moved to cut drastically the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal to dangerously low levels. The Guardian reported in late September that President Obama has “rejected” the Pentagon’s initial draft of the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review, the congressionally-mandated review of the nation’s nuclear strategy. Radical cuts in America’s nuclear arsenal will have serious ramifications for U.S. national security. Such cuts will reduce the credibility of American power, weaken our bargaining position, and give friends…
Six-Party Sham
The Six-Party talks are set to continue today in Beijing with hopes that North Korea’s recent declaration of its nuclear activities will lead to a breakthrough that puts the country on a path towards complete and verifiable denuclearization. Some have suggested this recent “progress” made on the diplomatic front demonstrates the power of negotiation and is the template by which the U.S. should approach other rogue nuclear aspirants, such as Iran.
John Bolton described the diplomatic ruse of the Six Party Talks best in the Wall Street Journal last week…
There is no advantage to the U.S. in proceeding by phases. To the contrary, North Korea alone benefits by phasing, by stretching out a process that enables Kim Jong Il to stay in power and to maximize the…