Wonderboy's UN Nuclear Whitewash

Tuesday's Wall Street Journal contained an eye-opening account of what was supposed to happen when Wonderboy chaired the UN Security Council meeting last week. According to the Journal,

"But now we hear that the French and British leaders were quietly seething on stage, annoyed by America's handling of the announcement.

Both countries wanted to confront Iran a day earlier at the United Nations. Mr. Obama was, after all, chairing a Security Council session devoted to nonproliferation. The latest evidence of Iran's illegal moves toward acquiring a nuclear weapon was in hand. With the world's leaders gathered in New York, the timing and venue would be a dramatic way to rally international opinion.

President Sarkozy in particular pushed hard. He had been "frustrated" for months about Mr. Obama's reluctance to confront Iran, a senior French government official told us, and saw an opportunity to change momentum. But the Administration told the French that it didn't want to "spoil the image of success" for Mr. Obama's debut at the U.N. and his homily calling for a world without nuclear weapons, according to the Paris daily Le Monde."

Wow. In order to protect the image of success, Wonderboy's handlers forbid Britain and France to actually address real nuclear weapon proliferation concerns at the UN, which would be the logical place to do so.

The editorial continues, referring to Sarkozy's modified UN address,

"The address takes on added meaning now that we know the backroom discussions.

"We are right to talk about the future," Mr. Sarkozy said, referring to the U.S. resolution on strengthening arms control treaties. "But the present comes before the future, and the present includes two major nuclear crises," i.e., Iran and North Korea. "We live in the real world, not in a virtual one." No prize for guessing into which world the Frenchman puts Mr. Obama.

"We say that we must reduce," he went on. "President Obama himself has said that he dreams of a world without nuclear weapons. Before our very eyes, two countries are doing exactly the opposite at this very moment. Since 2005, Iran has violated five Security Council Resolutions."

You can't criticize Sarkozy for avoiding reality or being in denial. Like our president. The French PM continued,

"And last but not least, it has resulted in a statement by Iranian leaders calling for wiping off the map a Member of the United Nations. What are we to do? What conclusions are we to draw? At a certain moment hard facts will force us to make decisions.""

Sarkozy pulls no punches about the threat a nuclear Iran will pose to Israel. How's that for irony? A French Prime Minister arguing on Israel's behalf?

Unfortunately, our own leader can't muster the courage to confront the Iranians at the UN, preferring, instead, to continue his imaginary global victory lap undisturbed by the reality of nuclear weapons proliferation in one of the most dangerous reasons on Earth.