Innocent abroad

You know me. I'm a domestic policy guy. I see deficit spending at 13% of GDP and the Federal Reserve printing trillions of dollars and I say, "Who the hell are we to do anything abroad? We're like Phil and Nancy Garrido running around lecturing everyone else on good housekeeping and good parenting."

Nevertheless, I'm glad that some people are paying attention to American foreign policy. The UK's Gerald Warner, for example:

“Rules must be binding,” declared Obama, referring to the fact that Kim [Jong-il] had just breached UN Resolutions 1695 and 1718. “Violations must be punished.” (Sounds ominous.) “Words must mean something.” (Why, Barack? They never did before, for you - as a cursory glance at your many speeches will show.)

President Pantywaist is hopping mad and he has a strategy to cut Kim down to size: he is going to slice $1.4bn off America’s missile defence programme, presumably on the calculation that Kim would feel it unsporting to hit a sitting duck, so that will spoil his fun.

Watch out, France and Co, there is a new surrender monkey on the block and, over the next four years, he will spectacularly sell out the interests of the West with every kind of liberal-delusionist initiative on nuclear disarmament and sitting down to negotiate with any power freak who wants to buy time to get a good ICBM fix on San Francisco, or wherever. If you thought the world was a tad unsafe with Dubya around, just wait until President Pantywaist gets into his stride.