When Jeane Kirkpatrick became U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, she noted that the organization not only was a poor law enforcement organization but that most of its members didn't care what the United States said in large part because the Carter administration had no teeth behind their international positions.

I fear Obama is repeating the Carter administration errors.  Charles Krauthammer on Obama's call for action in the face of North Korea's missile launch:

"'Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something. The world must stand together to prevent the spread of these weapons. Now is the time for a strong international response.'

A more fatuous presidential call to arms is hard to conceive. What 'strong international response' did Obama muster to North Korea's brazen defiance of a Chapter 7 -- "binding," as it were -- U.N. resolution prohibiting such a launch?

The obligatory emergency Security Council session produced nothing. No sanctions. No resolution. Not even a statement. China and Russia professed to find no violation whatsoever. They would not even permit a U.N. statement that dared express "concern," let alone condemnation."

Read the rest here.

Thanks, David.