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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.

When diplomats get angry, they use “mean” words. So far we are getting the standard “you’ve been a bad boy” adjectives. Of course, no real threats and no action.

Current list: Reckless, Irresponsible, Provocative, Dangerous.

To do my part, I’d like to suggest some other words that the UN girls can use: Careless, Foolhardy, Incautious, Heedless, Rash, Indiscreet, Imprudent, and Harebrained.

Presidential loser Kerry said:

Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry, who lost to Bush in the 2004 presidential election, called the North Korea test a “shocking failure” of Bush’s security policy.

“While we’ve been bogged down in Iraq where there were no weapons of mass destruction, a madman has apparently tested the ultimate weapon of mass destruction,” Kerry said.

Though Kerry can’t help but interject the “Iraq-o-failure” posturing, he nailed the shocking failure part.

Let’s face it, Bush completely stepped in a pile of crap when he started the whole Axis of Evil ™ talk. He wasn’t prepared to fight and win against these evil nations. It appears he hoped that his cowboy image and tough talk would be enough to bring change. It wasn’t. He went all in on a bluff and got called.

I’m still waiting for someone to call for a resignation. Can we have such monumental foreign policy failure and everyone gets to keep their jobs?

Gotta love the looks this morning on the Bush team. Condi has that look like “what do you mean the six party talks didn’t work…?” Mr. Card looks like “oh crap, will I have a job tonight?” Laura is just asleep.

The early polls show that we have unanimous UN Security Council condemnation (I’m sure North Korea is scared) and this great tidbit:

A statement said Annan “calls on all parties to respond to this grave challenge in a constructive manner, and calls for serious negotiations to be renewed urgently in the framework of the six-party talks.”

I want to know what they smoke over there at the UN. Constructive manner and more six-party talks?! These people are completely insane. It doesn’t matter what some rogue dictator does, the answer is always “let’s talk about it.” When diplomats call for talks it means they have no clue what to do next. North Korea called the world’s bluff and now the UN and the US will show they have no will to overthrow this rogue regime.

Ever the spin-masters, the only thing left that the US can say is “well, it’s smaller than they wanted.”

C’mon, is that it? How much you want to bet that Bush and his “senior” officials are going to stare at each other during tomorrow’s security briefing and say “now what?”

So what if it was “smaller” than expected. The fact that they were able to achieve a nuclear detonation at all is a CATASTROPHIC policy failure.

According to this article, North Korea was nice enough to give a 20 minute heads-up before entering the nuclear family. Sweet of ole Kim Jong huh?

Ok, so let’s guess about tomorrow: emergency UN Security Council meeting, multiple condemnations, calls for sanctions, and no action. Lots of talk, lots of saber rattling, and no action.

I hope that I can report someone being fired tomorrow or at least calls from Republicans that somebody get fired over this. I expect Democrats to seize this and run with it.

It’s being reported that North Korea has tested a nuclear weapon near Kilju City. If confirmed, it will be a monumental failure of the Bush administration. The six party talks have been a sham and the Bush foreign policy team should be fired.

Expect to see the usual condemnations from the U.N. and others over the next few days. The calls for sanctions will come, but it’s all meaningless. North Korea has proven to the world it has nukes and now the US and Asian allies will have to deal with it.

Remember those missile tests a few months ago? What about North Korea working on a long-range missile capable of hitting the US? This nuke test puts all things in a new light. Just wait till Iran has a nuke as well. Can the consequences of these policy failures get any more dire?

If I were President, tomorrow morning there would be many State Department people looking for a new job.