THE WORLD IS WATCHING

At the u.n., b.o. touted the necessity of nations treating each other as equals, arguing that no nation should try to coerce the behavior of fellow or sister states.

Mainstream media generally has supported their candidate/President. You think?

At any rate, leave it to Powerline once again to call to our attention the shift, the drift, the growing realization on the part of that very msm that b.o. is really an eneffective leader.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/09/024584.php

On the international stage, I would add that he is a dangerous leader.

Dangerous??

Yes, for if he really waits for the world to 'handle' the Iran nuclear situation, then he will be guilty, guilty of plunging the Middle East into a major conflict, a conflict which he could have avoided by making it clear to Israel and neighbors that the United States, forget the world, will not allow, repeat, will not allow, Iran to go nuclear.

Liberals will argue that the US has too much on the plate what with Afghanistan and Iraq and Korea and global warming, for God's sake, and algore getting $500 million Federal dollars to outsource car production [tis ok for him, cause he is algore and a dem].

I will argue that we are in a phase of, if you will, WW3, that just as in WW2, there could not be too much on the plate, that as the old saying goes, "You gotta do what you gotta do."

Liberals believe that you gotta do, but what they gotta do is not what should be done.

Iran cannot go nuclear. b.o. had better not wait for the world 'community' to do the preventing.

If Iran goes nuclear, so does Egypt and Saudi Arabia. And before that happens, long before, Israel will attack Iranian sites, and a new war cycle will begin.

b.o. did not know what he was in for when he ascended from Chicago politics and entered the varsity level, the professional level, of international politics.

He is a shallow amateur.

Folks who voted for him are ignorant citizens of the co-greatest nation on the planet.

b.o. has no idea of the problems which are out there.

We can only hope that wise heads help him to find his way.

They probably will. He is ignorant, but perhaps he will realize that he does not know what is really going on and let folks who really know the score set the courses that have to be followed.

There is another old saying/thought that I will conclude with.

Nations are not equal. Nations do not all contribute equally to the general good. Some, even many nowadays, contribute much that is evil [read not good for the United States].

And the world order, such as it is, is not self-sustaining.

There is no world government. There is no world court [in name only] . There is no world legislature.

What there is is quite the opposite. There is disorder and lawlessness. There are strong nations and there are weak ones, just as there are wealthy ones and poor ones.

And the law-abiding nations of the world need leadership, because the lawless ones do indeed have their leaders.

The United States of America is the leader of the law-abiding nations of the world. The United States has inherited this role, has grown into this role, and it had bloody well better act as though it has assumed this role.

The old saying: Lead or get out of the way. Getting out of the way is not an option, for there is no second stringer who is up to the job.

The United States is the only mission-capable nation, whether or not the President of the United States knows it, whether or not he believes that the United States is responsible for all the ills of the world.

He didn't know this as a candidate. He is finding it out now.

The world is watching to see how he does.