Durign the presidential campaign, Obama’s running mate, Joe Biden had the following words of wisdom…
“And here’s the point I want to make. Mark my words. Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking… Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.
Within the last 24-48 hours, two significant, albeit under-reported events took place on the global stage that show exactly where the origins of this “test” might be…
First Iran not only rebuffed Obama’s offer to dialogue, but also told Obama that he needs to issue an apology before they would even consider talking to him, all the while denying Israel’s right to exist and running a nuclear program. Breitbart
US President Barack Obama’s offer to talk to Iran shows that America’s policy of “domination” has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday.
“This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed,” Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.
“Negotiation is secondary, the main issue is that there is no way but for (the United States) to change,” he added.
After nearly three decades of severed ties, Obama said shortly after taking office this month that he is willing to extend a diplomatic hand to Tehran if the Islamic republic is ready to “unclench its fist”.
In response, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a fresh tirade against the United States, demanding an apology for its “crimes” against Iran and saying he expected “deep and fundamental” change from Obama.
Former US president George W. Bush refused to hold talks with the Islamic republic — which he dubbed part of an “axis of evil” — unless it suspended uranium enrichment, and never took a military option to thwart Tehran’s atomic drive off the table.
The new administration of Obama has also refused to rule out any options — including military strikes — to stop Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
Iran denies any plans to build the bomb and insists its nuclear programme is solely aimed at peaceful ends.
Meanwhile, North Korea has decided that the non-aggression pact it’s had with South Korea is no longer necessary, and that the region in on the “brink of war” : Miami Herald
The potential for a naval clash off the Korean Peninsula grew Friday after North Korea scrapped a nonaggression pact with South Korea and declared as void a western sea border, warning in shrill language that the region has “reached the brink of war.”
South Korea expressed regret that Pyongyang canceled all political and military accords and pledged “firm counteraction” should North Korean vessels cross a U.N.-set demarcation line on the Yellow Sea.
“The confrontation between the North and the South in the political and military fields has been put to such extremes that inter-Korean relations have reached the brink of a war,” the North’s statement added.
North Korea tested its first nuclear device in 2006, demonstrating a nuclear capability.
So there you have it folks, Joe Biden asked us to remember, and we have not forgotten…
