Originally Posted By: the G-man of Zur-En-Arrh
 Originally Posted By: Juche
I don't get what point you're trying to make.


You need to learn to read an entire thread, not just one or two posts. BSAMS went on to say:
 Originally Posted By: BASAMS The Plumber
Obama has insulted and attacked his own intelligence service, demoralized the military. i think that everyone from Russia, to Iran, to Chavez, to N Korea, to possibly even Cobra will test this guy big time.


Clearly, therefore, his point was that Obama naively thinks that being everyone's "buddy" will make the world a safer place when, in reality, it tends to embolden the bad guys.


It does, actually. Do you think USA can just military interfere everywhere? They can't be the world police anymore. Obama's diplomatic skills will bring them much further than the threats from Bush. North Korea knows that USA won't attack them, at least not in the coming 100 years (if they still exist by then). So they know they can bully nations into giving them aid, the only thing they fear is China.