North Korea: Is obama getting in front of the Congressional riot and calling it his parade?

Both Democrats and Republicans in both houses of Congress nearly broke out into a non-partisan riot at POTUS Obama’s policy of “doing nothing” towards a belligerent North Korea who has broken every line item in the failed nuclear agreement orchestrated by former POTUS Bill Clinton. The successful ballistic missile test into outer space was the last straw for Congress and both the Senate and House passed a bill composed of sanctions that have already born fruit as China, rather than lose trade with the USA, has frozen North Korean bank accounts and stopped many Chinese countries of shipping certain items to North Korea.

President Obama, in a similar fashion as what happened when Congress brought Iran to it’s knees with sanctions, is trying to get in front of the Congressional riot and call it HIS PARADE. Obama has done nothing about North Korea’s violations of the Clinton nuclear pact for 7 years, but AFTER THE Congressional bill, Obama made an offer to North Korea to allow them to keep their nuclear program under international observation in exchange dropping of sanctions.

Not only has Obama done nothing on this important issue for 7 years, but he is also advocating papering over the numerous North Korean violations with a meaningless diplomatic clause that calls for “international observation” – a key point already in Clinton’s nuclear agreement and violated by North Korea before the ink was dry.

Obama’s lack of response to North Korea poses a risk to South Korea and to the entire region similar to the mess in Syria that some will say was caused by the lack of American leadership when Obama turned his back on traditional American allies and his red line evaporated – giving a “green light” to every tribe armed with a gun to fill the vacuum.

I do not advocate the U.S.A. military acting as the world’s policemen for the world, but I also do not advocate total abandonment of our allies,  or 60 years of  consistent foreign policy. The U.S.A. can give moral leadership, it can give assistance to our allies, and it can use its vast array of economic levers to keep minor conflicts from becoming major human disasters. The U.S.A. is not in decline compared to the rest of the world, and it is precisely in these types of times that we should use our ability to influence to make the world a safer place. That is the ultimate “human rights” act, and I hope some in the liberal Democratic left can see the logic in a robust U.S. foreign policy.