North Korea's Empty Chair

Another fruitless, toothless  resolution passed by an impotent UN Security Council.  But for these moments (in the below video), we'll either die of boredom or enemy nukes. Check out Ambassador Bolton's pointing finger. So great. Why won't the Dems vote for this guy?

Now tell me again how we will stop North Korea and its patrons from circumventing these sanctions. Oil for food anyone? The best was North Korea Ambassador Pak Gil Yon warning that it will consider increased U.S. pressure a "declaration of war." They  rejected the resolution immediately, and its U.N. ambassador walked out of the council chamber after accusing its members of a "gangster-like" action which neglects the nuclear threat posed by the United States. Now that takes balls. More on arms Control Illusion over at WSJ. 

Jack Wakeland over at TIA Daily;

The North Korea test mocks any American who evades the fact that we’re at war with Islamo-fascism; an American who evades the fact that Islamo-fascism is death. For that kind of American, a nuclear attack on his country is just some crazy idea dreamed up for a spy thriller. But it is not. Iran’s leadership will not rest in its puny efforts to make war on us—not until our entire nation is destroyed. This being impossible for them to accomplish with anything short of a hundred nuclear weapons, will they try to do it with just one?

For our part, will we Americans eschew all lesser military actions, immobile and mute. Will we answer Iran only after they attack with the supreme weapon and then retaliate in kind?

Cliff May writes here in Breaking China:

The great 19th century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov said it was a rule of the theatrical stage: If a loaded gun appears in the first act, that gun will be fired before the curtain falls. It's a rule of the world stage as well: If rogue states such as North Korea and Iran obtain weapons of mass destruction, we must expect those weapons will be used eventually, with all the death and destruction that implies.

Comments

[Bill Faith]

Excerpted and linked at Bill's Bites >> Not quite The Eiger Sanction, but a start

[BillBowen]

There is an old phrase that goes "No matter how much lipstick you put on a pig, it is still a pig". I have to give Bolton credit for putting the best face he can on the U.N. resolution, which, if you read it, shows it is totally toothless. As I figured N.K.'s 2 allies and enablers, the ChiComs and the Russians, ran interference for them. It is about time that we make it plain to both countries that these types of actions have consequences - the ChiComs need us a lot more than we need them; same goes for the Russians. Another thing to consider - what kind of a signal do such "limpdick" resolutions send to Iran, Syria, etc.? I fear not positive ones from our standpoint.

As the Birchers have been saying for 50 years, it is PAST time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US. We've got better places to put people with the talent of John Bolton AND better things to do with the dollars.

[Richard Davis]

If feel sorry for John Bolton, it's like a PhD in a class full of 7th graders (apologies to 7th graders).

He has the patience of a saint.

How can the Democrats not vote for him? Because they are classless assholes who put party ahead of country and they hate Bush and they cheat in elections (see Philadelphia and Chicago, well anywhere really) and lie and mislead (see Social Security reform) and have trouble walking (as per clyde's observation).... if I hear one more liberal bitch about "Voter ID cards are discriminatory and a tax" my brain will explode... Give them their own country and let them feed each other.