The Korean Object Lesson

The forgiveness Obama showed this week toward North Korea delivered a striking message: we simply have no one to rely upon, except for ourselves.

Obama’s reaction to the ruthless attack on Tuesday by North Korea on the South Korean island, Yeonpyeong, teaches us another important lesson. South Korea is a close ally of the United States — even without charges that support its “occupation.” Nevertheless, this is the second time in half a year that South Korea is under a cruel attack and under the threat of nuclear missiles. In the meantime, all the Americans have done is to express shock and demand that restraint be shown.

It is for good reason that South Koreans and other American allies in the region are raging. The helpless leader of the free world is facing the crazy regime of Kim Jong-il. Seen as representative of the spiritual weakening of the current government, harsh criticism is already raging in the United States because of the Obama administration, being at its wit’s end in contending with North Korea.

Obama does not have a response to the premeditated North Korean tactic of making gains through offensive actions and harsh threats. The West begged for the nuclear weapons to be dismantled. North Korea accepted aid for feeding its perishing fellow citizens, in exchange for its agreement to dismantle the weapons. Yet, at the same time, it defiantly continues to arm itself. The calculated aggression and insolence of Korea are also a product of American cowardice and the desertion of its international allies.

North Korean dictators are making the same assessment as Ahmedinejad, Nasrallah, Hamas and Al-Qaeda: The Western world is rotten and frightened, its leader is bound by a delusional concept of world peace and is not capable of conducting a creative, cunning and daring policy toward the new honchos. This is the moment, from the vantage point of all despots, to make a breakthrough. By the looks of the Obama administration, this tactic is yielding especially terrific results.

Like Woodrow Wilson in the First World War

Only this week, the reason was revealed for efforts by Hezbollah, Iran, and Syria to intimidate the international tribunal investigating the assassination of Hariri and to cause it to shelve incriminating findings against Hezbollah and its accomplices within the elite of the Lebanese government. It is not in vain that Lebanon, Iran and Hezbollah are now blaming Israel for the Hariri assassination — as though concocting plots for the “Tales of Sheherezade.”*

In the Obama era, these accusations are about to cause Washington to support the new Goldstone committee, which is to rule that we actually murdered Hariri, along with Jesus and Kennedy. Obama’s course of action reminds one, in an alarming way, of Woodrow Wilson’s policy toward Germany during World War I.

Even after the Germans started sinking American ships, Wilson was not ready to disown his fantasy and recognize reality. Only when it had been proved that Germans were putting together an offensive alliance against the U.S. itself was the spiritual father of Barack Obama and the Democrats forced to do the unavoidable and save the free world from enslavement. In this way, Obama’s idea of burying his head in the sand takes America back 100 years and is likely to lead the world 1,000 years backwards — to the Middle Ages.

As for us, the lesson we learn from the latest Korean events is simplistic: there is simply no one to rely upon except for ourselves. The promises and guaranties of the American administration and the international community are meaningless. Also, over here, the enemy is going to possess nuclear weapons soon, while on all sides, aggressive tyrants are eager to build destructive capabilities against us. Under these circumstances, we must not consider giving up on the components of power and placing our destiny in foreign hands, and surely not in the hands of the present Washington administration.

Translator’s Note

* “A Thousand and One Nights”