track of the football.
We are not watching an administration that is whipping up a war fever to launch military action.
We are watching a world leader who is raising the level of dialogue with serious countries, like Russia and developing a united multilateral front to apply pressure against an outlaw regime.
Now the question is does that work.
Yes it does - all the time.
I believe that because shortly after the Vietnam War I walked into Vietnam while they were loading hundreds of thousands of American related Vietnamese and Vietnamese of Chinese descent on boats and pushing them out to sea and negotiated an orderly departure program that allowed them to leave with visas. The first ones out were the children of CIA agents.
(I also saw that same public pressure force the United States to increase its rate of taking refugees.)
Now more similar and directly on point Ghaddaffi negotiated an end to his WMD and settlement of the Lockerbie bombing
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,474532,00.htmlIs Muammar Gaddafi finally ready to make amends? In an interview with TIME, the Libyan ruler said his country will accept responsibility under international law for the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. In exchange for Libya's admission and payments of $2.7 billion to the families of victims, he said, the U.N. sanctions that have blocked the world from doing business with Libya would be lifted —
Obama just scored on a squeeze play and your waiting for a touchdown.
By the way your jingoistic apoplexy has gotten a little ahead of you if you are lumping the Korean War in with Vietnam War. The Korean War was started by an unprovoked attack by North Korean forces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#North_Korea_invades_.28June_1950.29Under the guise of counter-attacking a South Korean provocation raid, the North Korean Army (KPA) crossed the 38th parallel, behind artillery fire, at Sunday dawn of 25 June 1950.<37>:14 The KPA said that Republic of Korea Army (ROK Army) troops, under command of the régime of the "bandit traitor Syngman Rhee", had crossed the border first—and that they would arrest and execute President Singman Rhee.<43> In the past year, both Korean armies had continually harassed each other with skirmishes—and each continually raided the other country across the 38th-parallel border, as in a civil war.
Hours later, the United Nations Security Council unanimously condemned the North Korean invasion of the Republic of South Korea (ROK), with UNSC Resolution 82, so adopted despite the USSR, a veto-wielding power, boycotting the Council meetings since January—protesting that the (Taiwan) Republic of China, and not the (mainland) People's Republic of China held a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.<57> On 27 June 1950, President Truman ordered US air and sea forces to help the South Korean régime. After debating the matter, the Security Council, on 27 June 1950, published Resolution 83 recommending member-state military assistance to the Republic of Korea. Incidentally, while awaiting the Council's fait accompli announcement to the UN, the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister accused the US of starting armed intervention in behalf of South Korea.<58>
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There were no large foreign military garrisons in Korea at invasion time
As for Vietnam, I was a CO in the draft, organized demonstrations against the war, drafted the anti war position of the United Presbyterian Church, received a grant from the World Council of Churches to take a year working with refugees and ended up working to resettle 440,000 Vietnamese refugees from Vietnam from 1978-1984. The penchant to try and make every single dispute somehow analagous to Vietnam is the crutch for people who are disposed to categorize all brown people into the same pen of victomhood.
The issues here are simple. Iran is trying to achieve a nuclear program of undetermined dimensions by deceiving the IAEA. The Obama adminstration is using mulilateral diplomacy to establish a united front, including Russia and China, so that a diplomatic and non military solution will be exercised.
Just becase a ball is involved doesn't mean its always football. In this case its Baseball.