"Smart diplomacy" - it ain't all unicorns and Skittles

Remember back for most of the last 10 years. Every act of aggression was the result of provocation from that cowboy, BOOOOSH!! If only we were wise enough to elect an intellectual, someone the rest of the world would admire. Then all the usual thugs would like us again and everything would be just swell.

Well, now we have President Urkel and the landscape doesn't look much better; and there is considerable argument that it looks worse. The Norks led by their little troglodyte are stirring up trouble in the Korean peninsula again. But now we have Barry O (a/k/a The One) so the international community will now rally behind us now that Bush has been sent packing. Right??

Eh... not so much. Seems China is offering protection to the Norks.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is likely to resist pressure to acknowledge that North Korea torpedoed a South Korean warship when he flies to Seoul tomorrow to meet South Korean President Lee Myung Bak and Japan’s Yukio Hatoyama.

China hasn’t followed South Korea, Japan and the U.S. in blaming North Korea for the March 26 sinking of the Cheonan, which killed 46 sailors. Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun yesterday repeated a call for “restraint” by both sides and said China had no “firsthand information” on the sinking.