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Harking back to Reagan’s speech and the idea of a moral imperative, a group has brought the disgusting atrocities committed by the North Koreans to the UN for review (and hopefully action). The report describes:

Pyongyang’s brutal treatment of its citizens, from the beatings of pregnant women to force miscarriages to the abduction, torture and execution of political prisoners.

“It is clear that (North Korean leader) Kim Jong-il and the North Korean government are actively committing crimes against humanity,” they said in a letter introducing the report, which was prepared by the nonprofit, independent U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and by the DLA Piper law firm.

The report, largely based on previously published material, estimates that North Korea imprisons “upwards of 200,000 people in its modern-day gulag” and that double that number have died in the its prison network over 30 years.

It describes prisoners being fed near-starvation diets that they supplement with insects, being beaten until their eyeballs pop out and being entombed in “sweatbox” solitary cells so small they are forced to crouch for months.

What type of regime commits or allows acts like these? How can the World turn a blind eye toward the sufferings of others? Is it not the righteous thing to actively overthrow such an evil government?

The current North Korean government and policies add no value to this planet. Many expect the wimps at the UN to turn away from the moral imperative here like they have done in other parts of the world.

Yeah, let’s all six-party talk. What a pathetic joke.

Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy “accommodation.” And they say if we’ll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he’ll forget his evil ways and learn to love us.

All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer — not an easy answer — but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.

Proving that truth is eternal, I came across a speech that Ronald Reagan gave in 1964. Though the Cold War is over, the truth about facing an enemy that threatens us rings yet today. The phrase that hit hard for me was “peace without victory”.

How true today. The Libs haven’t changed at all. What do they want to do with North Korea? How about Iran? What of Syria and Saudi Arabia? The answer is the same each time; they want accommodation. They want peace without victory. They want to tuck their coward tails and run.

And they say if we’ll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he’ll forget his evil ways and learn to love us.

Six-party talks anyone? UN resolutions? Summits? Negotiations? I wish I could make US politicians watch Reagan speeches again and again until they get it. You have to do what is morally right, not what is least confrontational. You have to bring peace through victory over your enemies, not through accommodation.

The sad part is that many will learn this lesson the hard way and what will be the cost?

So the French are facing a Palestinian type uprising, jihad, call to war, and the article describing the problem starts with this vague comment:

The recent ambush was emblematic of what some officers say has become a near-perpetual and increasingly violent conflict between police and gangs in tough, largely immigrant French neighborhoods that were the scene of a three-week paroxysm of rioting last year.

One small police union claims officers are facing a “permanent intifada.” Police injuries have risen in the year since the wave of violence. (emphasis added)

Oh please, “gangs” and “largely immigrant”?! This is the type of Liberalism that will get the French killed. You must name your enemies. You cannot cower in fear of the Islamic terrorists.

Later in the article the AP writer Keaton reports:

Michel Thooris, head of the small Action Police union, claims that the new violence is taking on an Islamic fundamentalist tinge.

“Many youths, many arsonists, many vandals behind the violence do it to cries of ‘Allah Akbar’ (God is Great) when our police cars are stoned,” he said in an interview.

Is it just a “claim” or is it a fact? Note this comment as well:

Distrust and tension thrive. Rumors have flown around some housing projects that police are hoping to use the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ends this week, to round up known troublemakers, on the basis that fasting all day will have made the youths weaker and easier to catch.

Ok, so let me follow this. These “gangs” in “largely immigrant neighborhoods” celebrate the “Muslim holy month of Ramadan”? While these “youth” may run around in gangs, they are by practice Jihadists who scream “God is great” when they practice terror and mayhem.

Liberal cowards. You see the enemy stare you in the face and you hear him call for your death, yet you lie to yourself and others. You hear the enemy cry out to his “god” while he tries to kill you, yet you will not name him out of cowardice. When the blade is at your throat, it will be too late.

What exactly will it take to awaken the world to this threat? Pacifism and “talk” will not stop this enemy. Calling Islamofascists “gangs” of “immigrants” will not stop the threat to your very way of life.

Fools. You hear the thunder in the distance but do nothing to prepare for the storm. You tell yourself “it will pass” but it is raging in your direction.

“Many youths, many arsonists, many vandals behind the violence do it to cries of ‘Allah Akbar’ (God is Great) when our police cars are stoned,”

Remember those words well, my friends.

What a week. US Intel says that North Korea is prepping for another nuke blast. Guess desperate times call for desperate measures? Of course Secretary Rice (along with others) are still begging for North Korea to come back to the six-party talks.

I wish I had a direct line to someone in the State Department. I would ask them “what exactly do you hope to accomplish in the six-party talks?” It doesn’t make any sense to me. North Korea does whatever it wants and habitually lies. What assurance can you get from a liar? What agreement can you make that won’t be broken?

The most bizarre news lately is the reported apology for the Oct 9th nuke test by Kim Jong Il.

The Chosun Ilbo daily quoted a Chinese diplomatic source as saying Kim made the apology and the reiteration of his government’s known position in a meeting Thursday morning with State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, who visited Pyongyang as a special envoy of Chinese President Hu Jintao.

I’m sure most Liberals believe he is sincere. I wonder if Secretary Rice thinks he’s sincere? Yeah, I’m sure he’s real sorry. There is an off-chance that the Chinese turned up the heat and Kim Jong got nervous, but it’s most likely just another slick move to allow China to thwart any escalation in sanctions (after all he said he was “sorry”).

If another nuke test happens, we’ll know for sure it was just a rhetorical bluff.

Looks like North Korea got the message. Today’s it’s being reported:

Blaming the United States for instigating U.N. Security Council sanctions against it, North Korea on Tuesday called the resolution approved over the weekend a “declaration of war.”

North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency that the country wants “peace but is not afraid of war.”

The North “vehemently denounces the resolution, a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward (the North) and totally refutes it,” the statement said, according to a report from The Associated Press.

The North Koreans are pathetically hilarious. They lie, build nukes, act like mad-men, make threats against their neighbors, and then cry like babies when the world slaps sanctions on them. Seriously, Kim Jong is really lucky that he’s still alive. It wouldn’t be too hard for the US to send a GPS guided bomb with his name on it.

Most likely the North Koreans are trying to test the resolve of neighbor states. Now having played the “war” card, people who fear confrontation will call for “talks” and other conciliatory gestures. The Libs here in the US will most likely start calling for “dialogue” saying that the sanctions are useless provocations that will lead us to another war. You know the line.

Meanwhile, Rice continues to promote her failed policy:

“We must remind North Korea that a positive path remains open to it through the six-party talks,” Rice said. “Thus far, North Korea has chosen the path of confrontation and all that that entails — deepening isolation, a failing economy, and few opportunities for its oppressed peoples.

What is with these people in the State Department? Six-party talks, Six-party talks. Shut up already. North Korea doesn’t want them and they have failed for how many years now? The talks existed to stop the North Koreans from going nuclear. Too late. It’s time now for sanctions and regime change.

Proving Islam is truly the religion of peace, the Indonesian Survey Institute released poll results that show 1 in 10 support jihad:

Around one in 10 Indonesian Muslims support jihad and justify bomb attacks on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali as defending the faith, a survey released on Sunday showed.

Surprise, surprise. If it’s 1 in 10 there, any guess what it might be in the Middle East?

The UN voted 15 – 0 to adopt resolution 1718 against North Korea. The resolution has a lot of “deploring” and firmly condemns the nuclear test. It also seeks to stop the import and export of military items, technology, and luxury goods. This is all fine and dandy but the real issue is if the member states will enforce this resolution.

The ink isn’t even dry and the NY Times is reporting that:

A day after the Council unanimously passed the resolution, following nearly a week of intensive diplomatic negotiations, the South Korean government said it would still pursue economic projects with North Korea, including an industrial zone and tourist resort in the North. Those projects are not explicitly covered by the Security Council resolution, but they are an important source of hard currency for the North.

China, which shares a 870-mile porous border with North Korea and is perhaps its most critical economic gateway to the outside world, said Saturday that it had no intention of stopping and inspecting cross-border shipments, as called for, but not specifically required, in the resolution. The Chinese government said nothing on Sunday about how it intended to carry out the sanctions, and American officials said they would be focused on whether the normal trade flow across the border was slowed.

The relative silence on Sunday about how the resolution would be enforced, coupled with the vagaries of the resolution itself, raised concerns that the Security Council action would not have much of an impact for the foreseeable future.

It takes a week of arguing, negotiating, and finally a watering-down of the resolution to get approval and now nobody knows if it’s going to be enforced. Is there any wonder why people think the UN is an absolute waste of time?

The same questions and non-action were evident for 10 years with Saddam and Iraq. The resolutions were in place, yet none of the member states had the guts to enforce them. Deja-vu for the 100th time.

Meanwhile, the North Korean delegate threw a tantrum and said that North Korea “totally rejects the unjustifiable resolution” and vowed that if the United States increases “pressure upon the Democratic Peoples of the Republic of Korea persistently, the DPRK will continue to take physical countermeasures, considering it as a declaration of war.”

Hello? Of course it’s an act of war. It’s low-grade, non-violent war, but it’s war baby. Let’s hope that Bush has the balls to press this matter, including interdiction missions and blockades. If North Korea wants to go to full-scale war, the US can easily and effectively neutralize their threats.

Reuters reports that the CIA is doing its job and holding terrorists in a “secret” jail. So what? I gather since Spain wants the guy and we won’t tell Spain (the cowards) where he is, Reuters will now try to stir the pot and decry the evil of our CIA capturing and holding terrorists.

Amnesty International has reported Setmarian’s disappearance. The human rights organization says dozens of Islamic radicals captured in Pakistan are held in clandestine jails operated by the United States and other countries.

Boo-hoo. Notice the politically charged language like “clandestine”. Yes, how sinister! Get over it girls. Islamic radicals need to be caught, interrogated, tried, and killed.

Be sure and send a thank you note to the CIA for doing their job.

It’s hard to believe but Sam Donaldson leads his article North Korea and Politics 101 with a completely made up story about how George Bush calls Kim Jong Il and asks for him to test the nuke to help the Republicans win the election. While Donaldson admits:

Now, of course, that phone call is fantasy. But let us examine the idea that this North Korean test will help the president and by extension his party change the subject back to homeland security.

that does not change the insinuation, the conspiracy theory, that somehow Bush is pulling an October surprise. Talk about pandering to your lunatic fringe base. Donaldson is a complete idiot.

The liberal media trumpets daily that Bush is a moron yet they think he’s smart enough to keep North Korea in his back pocket to win an election? You don’t lead your article with a lunatic conspiracy story unless you partially believe it.

Guess it’s no surprise when you consider many hate Bush people think the Republicans have Osama and put him up to messages just before election times. One of the most inept foreign policy administrations since Jimmy Carter is smart enough and has enough power to control North Korea and Al Quaeda? Get real.

Sam, do us all a favor and go away.