Fox News Channel: S. Korea Criticizes N. Korea Over Nuclear, Missile Tests
I suppose that it was only a matter of time before Southeast Asia’s other countries started declaring solidarity with South Korea and Japan against North Korea, sensing that an East Asian showdown could end up turning their neighborhoods into war zones, as well. That surface-to-air missile launcher positioned near this Southeast Asia-South Korea summit is going to come in handy should yet another North Korean missile launch show up on our radar screens this week. With Barack Obama focusing his political energy on Sonia Sotomayor’s “racial empathy” this week, however -- as if that coming apology tour through Egypt wasn’t enough -- the rest of the world may be even less patient with the United States now than we would like in defending its freedom to act.:
Orange County Register: Mark Steyn: North Korea provokes with impunity
American Enterprise Institute: Dan Blumenthal and Robert Kagan: What to Do about North Korea
“If you’re starving to death in Pyongyang, North Korea is about North Korea. For everyone else, North Korea and Iraq, and Afghanistan and Iran, are about America: American will, American purpose, American credibility,” wrote Mark Steyn. He went on to explain that even though the rest of the world doesn’t necessarily commemorate a day to honor American soldiers who’ve given their lives in battle, it does understand how crude Obama’s half-hearted diplomatic stalemates greeting a nuclear test
on that specific day will be to this country’s global leadership. Ironically, direct American engagement with North Korea -- while consulting with Japan and South Korea -- can and should expose ordinary North Koreans to greater exposure to America’s best attributes, thereby beginning to undo the brainwashing implemented by Kim Jong-Il and his generals. I would think that a healthy dose of confidence from academics in America and its allies will counter Kim’s ballistic outbursts -- very much unlike what certain apologists for certain other tyrannical individuals and even Obama himself have been up to recently.:
New York Daily News: Michael Goodwin: On Obama’s travels to Mideast and Europe, he should leave the apologies behind
American Thinker: Jonathan Schanzer: Islamic Speakers Bureau Backed By Radical Profs
The people of Bosnia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan were Muslims, but they -- or at least, certain elements of those people -- wanted a simple taste of freedom for themselves within the 21st century, without threats of mass destruction from Sharia supremacists. Then again, I suppose that John Esposito, Hamza Yusuf Hanson, and Ingrid Mattson would just continue claiming American imperialism against Islamic countries, equivocating between Saudi Arabian Wahhabism and European Protestantism, and all that good stuff, all to create diversions from the jihad ideology. I’m guessing that Heinrich Himmler’s approval of Islam as a belief system for soldiers won’t do much to alter their agenda.:
Militant Islam Monitor: Emerson Vermaat: Heinrich Himmler’s Remarkable Admiration For Islam: “It Promises Beautiful Women In Heaven”
Himmler’s alliance with Amin Al-Husseini would produce the Handschar Division, which went ahead in massacring Serb civilians in the Second World War, and Himmler himself declared an Ottoman victory at Vienna in 1683 to have been good for Europe. Himmler and Al-Husseini’s joint anti-Semitism will stand as villainously as it has during my argument in defense of Israel, and even now, the Middle East may once again be ready to explode with Islamic rage against that tiny beacon of liberty and peace.:
Israel National News: Israel Prepares for War: 5-Day ‘Turning Point 3’ Exercise Begins
Jerusalem Post: Caroline Glick: Israel and the Axis of Evil
It’ll be a good thing that Benjamin Netanyahu is retaining his commitment to Israel’s defense against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ali Khamenei’s exterminatory ambitions, and it may be even better that observers from the United States and Japan, among other countries, will get front-row seats to this exercise, taking up reference points of their own. Hezbollah’s entrenchment in Lebanon may very well lead all the way to a Middle Eastern component for a Third World War, especially if it accuses Israel of preparing an actual attack often enough that
it decides to attack first. As President Barack Obama jets off to Egypt this Thursday, he could use some pointers about stopping Iran’s diplomatic dodges -- which are copying North Korea’s provocations even now. Indeed, if Obama’s timeline for talking with Iran’s ayatollahs proves accurate, then America will be prepared to target that Shiite theocracy --
after Iran gets the nuclear bomb. With Ecuador getting ready to enlist Iran in developing its defense industry, Iran’s Latin American expansionism may only create bigger headaches for Obama and his advisors… despite Lula da Silva’s refusal to cooperate with Tehran’s “investments”. Iranian ballistic missiles in Latin America will probably target American military bases in and around that region of the world, encircling our allies in the process.:
Cybercast News Service: Iran, Ecuador Eye Military Ties As U.S. Prepares to Withdraw from Airbase
Heritage Foundation: Ray Walser: Secretary of State Clinton in El Salvador and Honduras: Defining Obama’s Latin America Policy
Open markets for El Salvador and the rest of Latin America can generate genuine prosperity in that region, giving the people there a chance to develop their creativity as productively as they wish. Even in Cuba, a movement for freedom grows underneath our ability to detect it, and I wouldn’t doubt any alarm on the part of the Castro brothers that their brand of tyranny is beginning to crumble. Private enterprise initiatives can benefit both Latin America and the United States, so that Barack Obama will be far better off rejecting the misery that his advisors and associates have been promoting in the name of governmental expansion into public life in this great country. Ironically, Sonia Sotomayor may be more helpful toward both this end and strengthened American solidarity with Israel than we expect. At any rate, anything Sotomayor says about Israel now can only warrant our attention if we really intend to extend our alliances for freedom to Latin America alongside Israel.:
JTA: Life story, Israel trips tie Sotomayor to Jews
This unintended consequence of Sotomayor’s nomination has left me rather curious, and I can only opine that she should be even better off defending American constitutionalism and legal equality rather than, say, rely on something like racial empathy to make her judicial arguments. I would think that if she can do that, then certain segments of Latin America may be inspired to pursue their own opportunities to develop their destinies by themselves… without coercion from either the Caudillo of Caracas or his Islam(ist)ic allies. Venezuela’s assistance of Iran’s nuclear programs can only give that country of jihadists a weapon of nightmarish proportions to use against the United States and its friends and allies, trapping anyone standing in its path in a web of hatred and deception, when in fact, Latin America itself may be even more diverse than the American left gives it credit for.:
American Thinker: J.C. Arenas: Homogenizing ‘Hispanics’
From Puerto Rico to Brazil, Latin America encompasses different backgrounds, so it will be appropriate to extend a hand of friendship to them, countering anyone wishing to set up any tyrannical regimes in America’s backyard. If Lula da Silva and Alvaro Uribe maintain their respective positions against Venezuela and Iran, then I will welcome Brazil and Colombia’s assistance should World War III break out, even within the next few weeks.
