At what point will Barack Obama back off of his dove-like pledge to negotiate with the former Axis-of-Evil? Two hot issues face the Commander in Chief and the nation, North Korea and Iran.
North Korea is now threatening the U.S. and has been mocking international agencies and the United States...
The warning came as a U.S. navy destroyer was tracking a North Korean ship suspected of attempting to transport illicit weapons to Burma. The pursuit is seen as the first test of sanctions passed by the UN Security Council as a response to Pyongyang's underground nuclear test in late May.
North Korea has said it would consider an interception to be a declaration of war. On Wednesday, it accused the U.S. of seeking to provoke another Korean War.
"If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will … wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all," the official Korean Central News Agency said.
And Iran's post-election activity is demonstrating that their present leadership is willing to defy both international law as well as those of their own country...
Zahra Rahnavard, a former university dean who campaigned beside her husband, said on one of his Web sites that his followers had the constitutional right to protest and the government should not deal with them "as if martial law has been imposed in the streets."
...at some point, President Obama has to find some way of firming up his policy stances around the globe.
What path do UE readers think America should take here? Although everyone criticizes President Bush's claims about these "evil" nations, it seems that now that Obama has offered an olive-branch, these rogue nations seem more willing to defy the proclaimed interests of the United States and the world...
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