Interesting developments overseas

Interesting signs of the times.  See if you can detect a pattern. 

First, North Korea appears to be re-starting its nuclear weapons development program.  In written testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said North Korea has expanded the size of the uranium enrichment facility at the Nyongbyon nuclear complex and restarted a plutonium-producing reactor that was shut down in 2007.

Second:  Sources say Syria has turned over less than five percent of its chemical weapons arsenal and will miss next week’s deadline to turn over all such weapons, which were to be removed and destroyed by an international team.

The deliveries, in two shipments this month to a Syrian port, totaled 4.1 percent of the roughly 1433 metric tons of toxic agents reported by the Syrian government to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

“It’s not enough and there is no sign of more,” said one source.

The pattern is that no one overseas believes the U.S. any longer has the will to enforce international agreements.

Huh, I wonder where they could have gotten such an impression.