Singing Kumbaya Doesn't Work

In the news today:

President Barack Obama's vision of a world without nuclear arms is an achievable goal and the president will pursue it with an eye on the lessons learned from four decades of difficult diplomacy, the White House said Saturday.

To which the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (funny how often despotic regimes are democratic republics) promptly responded by firing off a missile potentially capable of reaching Alaska with a nuclear warhead.

You can draw your own conclusions about the effectiveness of Obummer's foreign policy.