OK. This is a foofy little satire about President Obama being compared to Mr. Spock by columnist for the New York Times Maureen Dowd. Turns out, as I watched it, I realized this is a clever essay that correctly argues that Mr. Spock is not the person that should be in the captain’s seat.

The Dowd Conundrum

OK, so I saw this little gem this morning that is being plastered all over Israel. It sort of sums up my feelings as to President Obama’s foreign policy to date.

To be fair, I don’t think President Obama… well, *I hope*… President Obama is fully against letting Iran and North Korea have nuclear weapons. But it is naive for him to think that he can negotiate his way out of Iran and N. Korea out of their nuclear programs. He can’t even convince half of America he is competent, and most of that half just disagrees with his ideology. So what makes him think he can convince two groups of people that hate America to stop, especially without leverage?

Since he has taken office, both Iran and North Korea have accelerated their progams and both are affirmatively testing what Obama will do about it. Let’s face it, the UN isn’t going to do anything unless the U.S. makes a stink. North Korea has launched long range missiles and performed a second underground nuclear test… and what have we done about it??? Nothing. Even our condemnation of the acts is weak.

As I said, I don’t think President Obama wants Iran and North Korea to have nucs, but his lack of doing anything about it is getting really close to impliedly rubber stamping their nuclear weapons programs.