Conservative Rumblings

It took them this long just to vote to “condemn” North Korea? I condemned them within 10 minutes…it takes these idiots a week to do it?

But wait a minute…they just “condemned” North Korea? What kind of deterrent is that? Are we hoping Kim Jong-Il gets his feelings hurt? That’s the WORST we can do to a country trying to start WWIII?

This underscores the sheer uselessness of the U.N. as an organization. They can’t do ANYTHING. Does anyone honestly thinks that a bunch of U.N. lackeys shaking their collective fingers at Pyongyang is going to have any effect whatsoever?

And Obama feels that we need to CEDE AUTHORITY to this useless body? Yeah, OK. That sounds like a great national security decision.

UNITED NATIONS — Key Security Council nations reached agreement Saturday on a statement that would condemn North Korea’s rocket launch and toughen U.N. sanctions against the reclusive communist nation.

The five permanent veto-wielding members — the U.S., China, Russia, Britain and France — and Japan reached agreement after Tokyo backed down from a demand that the Security Council adopt a new resolution, the strongest response the U.N.’s most powerful body can give.

They distributed the text of the proposed presidential statement to the nine other council members, who must now consult their capitals. Libya’s deputy U.N. ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi said he expects the council to meet again Monday.

A presidential statement is considered a weaker reaction by the council, and while the U.S. insists it is legally binding, others do not.

Nonetheless, the current draft contains stronger language and demands than many observers predicted.
The statement “condemns” North Korea’s April 5 launch, without specifying whether it was a missile or a satellite. It makes clear that the launch was a violation of a Security Council resolution, adopted after the North conducted a nuclear test in 2006, which bans any missile tests by the country.

Legally binding? Since when do rogue, terrorist states care about legalities?