The Occasional Observer

So much for the campaign rhetoric being spewed by Obama and the liberal media that the ONLY possible reason for belligerence in the world was the "aggressive", "cowboy", "unilateral" policies of the Bush administration. If we would simply act like a good neighbor and talk to everyone, there would be no problems. Never mind that WTC '93, USS Cole, and 4 years of planning and training for 9/11 occurred while Clinton was in office. Dialogue is the answer.

Except for this - it doesn't work.

North Korea threatened a military response to South Korean participation in a U.S.-led program to seize weapons of mass destruction, and said it will no longer abide by the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.

So far, in the "new" regime of dialogue, what do we have? N. Korea performs their most powerful underground nuclear weapons test ever. They launch both short and long-range missiles. They now pull out of a 56-year-old armistice. They threaten military action against South Korea. Iran test fires missiles, kicks weapons inspectors out of the country, and continues to accelerate their uranium enrichment program. Pirates attack a ship flying under the American flag for the first time in over 200 years. Pakistan cedes a large swath of territory to extremist control. Israel and Palestine continue to draw harder lines.

Where's the change?