“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America…Watch. We’re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy…And he’s going to need help . . . to stand with him. Because it’s not going to be apparent initially; it’s not going to be apparent that we’re right.”
-Joe Biden, Sunday, October 19, 2008
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Analysis: NKorea’s bomb test adds to atomic threat
By ROBERT BURNSNorth Korea’s nuclear test makes it no likelier that the regime will actually launch a nuclear attack, but it adds a scary dimension to another threat: the defiant North as a facilitator of the atomic ambitions of others, potentially even terrorists.
It also presents another major security crisis for President Barack Obama, already saddled with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a nuclear problem with Iran…(Full text at TownHall.com)