Richard Grenell
Communications director for the past 4 U.S. Ambassadors to the UN
Posted: July 22, 2010 11:02 AM
Clinton Signals Her Frustration with Obama's Weak Foreign Policies
It sounds as if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has had enough. Her new strong tone on North Korea is a welcome, albeit overdue, shift. The Obama administration's North Korea policy for the past 18 months has consisted of public relations ploys of pretending to get tough on the rogue state and a propensity to re-package the hard work of the Bush team and call it something new and improved.
Her announcement that the Obama administration will enforce the existing sanctions on nuclear related materials and luxury goods going in and out of North Korea is yet another example. While many members of the mainstream media have fallen for the Obama team's marketing efforts, veteran North Korea experts and UN observers aren't fooled. Still, Clinton's new forceful language signaled that even she believes the current policy isn't working and more must be done. She, seemingly alone among the Obama administration foreign policy team, is aware that success in North Korea requires more than just talking.
What Secretary Clinton really said is that the Obama administration will finally start enforcing the demands placed on North Korea during the Bush administration. Although the announcement claims to be fresh and innovative, the only thing new and improved is that the Obama team is admitting that its global celebrity status isn't enough to convince other countries to actually act on their international obligations.
Even South Korea, who has the most to lose from a provocative North Korea, isn't buying the "new" argument from the administration. "I don't really think there's anything new," Han Sung-joo, a former South Korean foreign minister, told the Christian Science Monitor. And he is correct.
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More GOP BS. Bush good and Obama bad.
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