Obama is a strange guy and hence we get strange policy. During the campaign it took him three days to speak out against the Russians invasion of Georgia. During the Iran election uprising he was essentially silent then stepped up to be cautious at best. He has stiff-armed Israel. He bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia. He has dissed the Honduran people, arguably in favor of the rule of law. Yet, he has our warships tracking NK’s boat and, presumably, authorized a launch of a minute-man missle from California in the general direction of the Korean peninsula. My only read is that Bob Gates told Obama what he has to do on NK and that’s it, whereas on all the other fronts he was trusting his own instincts and those of his sychophants. Pretty pathetic – a president without a backbone
