North Korea Update

On Sunday in Prague, with guidance from President Obama, an emergency meeting of the United Nation's Security Council was called to condemn the launching of North Korea's latest long range missile. After 3 days of wrangling, it now looks like a harsh rebuke of North Korea will be issued by the United Nations. The only problem now is whether or not words lsuch as "We're not happy with what you've done" or "Please don't do it again" will be used in the opening text of the communique to North Korea. The only sticking point now is that some members, like China and Russia, are concerned that "not happy" and "Please don't" represent too severe of a reprimand.

Of course, I'm being a bit sarcastic but it highlights the fact that the United Nations is totally worthless when it comes to world security. The fact that the United Nations can't come together shows how useless Obama's huff and puff is when it comes to the U.N. getting tough with anything or anybody. Obama's charm and sucking up to world leadership isn't going to get him anywhere when you are dealing with the likes of China and Russia who both have veto power in the Security Council and a strong trading relationship with another country like North Korea.

In my opinion, the United Nations is just a black hole that takes in money -- mostly from the United States -- and produces little more than can be achieved by the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, and Save the Children. Their peace keeping operations work fine as long as they don't have to actually keep the peace. At the first sign of gunfire, those blue UN helmets are flying off the heads of their wearers as those armed peace keepers throw down their guns and literally run to the safety of their own home countries. The only time anything has ever been successfully done under the U.N. banner was when the United States did it; and, mostly when the U.S. did it on their own.

Liberals should wake up to this fact!