North Korea makes a big boom and disavows past peace treaties.
Can't do much
Can't blame Bush/will try
Can't use EI, he promised
Can't enforce UN resolutions
Can't depend on Congress to back him up, even after most support him.
Can't use military force.
Poor "O"
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Oh, and Bush did such a wonderful job with these guys for eight years! :)
Mark my words - Obamah will solve the NK problem, quite possibly in his first term. It is a great opportunity, as success here would help a great deal with Iran. I have a good deal of newfound confidence in the WH and Foggy Bottom today. What a difference a few months makes!
KUDLOW: Is there's one--final question--is there one piece of advice you would give President Obama right now to deal with this North Korean problem?
Mr. CHENEY: Well, going forward, I'd say insist upon the North Koreans keeping their commitments, and when you say you're going to impose sanctions, impose sanctions, make them stick. And again you've got to work with the Chinese if you're going to try to do this peacefully. I think you also need to emphasize the fact, and I think it is a fact, that--and this is an argument to be made with the Chinese as well as others in the region--that if the North Koreans are successful in deploying a significant nuclear capability, that others in the region who have the capability, the technical capability, are going to want to do the same. The Japanese are going to have to reconsider their no nukes policy. Taiwan could be in that camp, certainly South Korea. All of these states living in an area where you've got a North Korean government that has nuclear weapons and is as irresponsible as it has been for decades are going to have to reconsider what they require for their own security. China needs to understand that the whole region is likely to become less stable.
KUDLOW: Hm.
Mr. CHENEY: And I can't believe that it's in their interest to have any of those developments occur that ought to give the Chinese the incentive to work with us to get the North Koreans to stop.
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