“Planned launch unnerves Hawaii residents”
Source: Associated Press
“Hawaii Unfazed by Missile Threat”
Source: Wall Street Journal
So which one is it? Unnerved or unfazed?
Dueling Headlines
Dueling Headlines: Hawaii reactions to North Korea missle
Tag: missle
Obama’s ping pong Pyongyang foreign policy
If you ask what the Obama administration’s policy on North Korea is, you have to then ask another question: What day of the week is it? Because the policy seems to change daily.
Ping: Back in April, when Pyongyang tested its first long-range missile, the President deemed North Korea a “regional threat.”
Pong: After the North Koreans’ latest missile test last week, he called them a global threat.
Ping: National security adviser James Jones said last week that the rogue nation poses no imminent threat to the US.
Pong: Later in the week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, “The United States will not accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state…North Korea’s nuclear program and actions constitute a threat to regional peace and security. We unequivocally reaffirm our commitment to the defense of our allies in the region.”
Ping: On Friday, Gates dialed back the rhetoric and said, “I don’t think that anybody in the [Obama] administration thinks there is a crisis.”
The Obama administration should take note that no one beats the Asians when it comes to ping pong.
Source: Flopping Aces via HotAir.com
General Commander of the Iranian Army: It will take us 11 days “to wipe Israel out of existence”
While Fox News is covering car chases and missing girls and MSNBC is trying resurrect Air America on their network, much more important news is going around the world, virtually unreported, or at least underreported, by all U.S. networks. The best way to really learn what’s really going on in the world is to go to directly to the source. Yet it often requires translation. Thank God for Memri.org that non-profit organization providing translations of the Middle East media.
One recent story is a translation of the General Commander of the Iranian Army Ataollah Salehi who claims that It Will Take Us 11 Days “to Wipe Israel Out of Existence.”
Memri.org also includes a translation of the video into English, repeated here:
Following are excerpts of statements by Iranian military commanders, from a TV report which aired on LBC TV on May 3, 2009.
Hillary presses “restart” button with Russians, restarts Khruschev era
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhXwcn3BksA America voted for hope and change. We just hope they like the change they’re getting.
According to CNN, the Russian government just announced that they may base long-range bombers in Cuba for the first time since the 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis.
When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented her Russian counterpart with a special “Restart” button this week, he apparently took it as a sign his government could restart the Cold War.
Next thing you know, Vladimir Putin will channel Nikita Khruschev, show up at the United Nations, start pounding his shoe on the podium, and threaten to bury us.
You really need to upgrade your hiring process, President Obama. Next time you need a Secretary of State, may we suggest Craig’s List?
