Courtesy of the White House: President Obama at the UN, 23/09/09
The White House Blog: Full Text of President Obama's speech to the UN. The President today at the UN tried again to start to talks with Iran and North Korea, the President stated the following, “ In their actions to date, the governments of North Korea and Iran threaten to take us down this dangerous slope. We respect their rights as members of the community of nations. I've said before and I will repeat, I am committed to diplomacy that opens a path to greater prosperity and more secure peace for both nations if they live up to their obligations. But if the governments of Iran and North Korea choose to ignore international standards; if they put the pursuit of nuclear weapons ahead of regional stability and the security and opportunity of their own people; if they are oblivious to the dangers of escalating nuclear arms races in both East Asia and the Middle East -- then they must be held accountable. The world must stand together to demonstrate that international law is not an empty promise, and that treaties will be enforced. We must insist that the future does not belong to fear. ” The problem for President Obama is that due to his actions in Poland and the Czech Republic he is seen as weak by the international community, thus Israel has stopped the Obama Agenda for the Middle East. Also the open political warfare in D.C over how the USA should act in Afghanistan, this is starting to effect the perception of the Obama Administration. On the one hand you have VP Biden who wants to redirect US forces to Pakistan at the expense of Afghanistan on the other you have the US Military and the Secretaries of Defence and State who want to to send another thirty to forty thousand more troops to Afghanistan. In essence Iran sees a weak President, someone they can roll, Obama so far has not used the big stick, a lot of talk not lot of action
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