I doubt that any will argue against that appellation being applied to North Korea.
1. This is the latest news about the 'Hermit Kingdom'...
"TOKYO (AP) -- North Korea has conducted a ground test of a new type of high-thrust rocket engine that leader Kim Jong Un is calling a revolutionary breakthrough for the country's space program, the North's state media said Sunday."
News from The Associated Press
a. "North Korea's stated goal is to develop a nuclear-armed ballistic missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland.
....ultimately necessary to hit the U.S. mainland (San Francisco is 8,200 km away; New York City is 10,800 km).
Once you have an ICBM missile you have to put an atomic warhead on the end. North Korea currently possesses enough nuclear material for about 15 such weapons...."
Can North Korea Actually Hit The U.S. With A Nuclear Missile?
2. How about Iran, to whom the past administration has awarded over $100 billion, and the go-ahead to develop nuclear weapons?
3. Now....let's see where those two stories coincide...
"North Korea: Iran's Pathway to a Nuclear Weapon
A central plank of the Obama administration’s case for the nuclear deal just concluded by the P5+1 powers is that the agreement closes off "all pathways” by which the Iranian regime could acquire a nuclear capability, at least for the coming decade.
That, however, simply isn’t true. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the new nuclear bargain is officially called, only addresses the overt means by which Iran might go nuclear. A covert path to the bomb, entailing the procurement of materiel from foreign suppliers, still remains open to Iran, if it chooses to take that route.
....over the past three decades, Iran and the Stalinist regime of the Kim dynasty in North Korea have erected a formidable alliance—the centerpiece of which is cooperation on nuclear and ballistic-missile capabilities."
North Korea: Iran's Pathway to a Nuclear Weapon
4. "Experts say the deal worked out by Secretary of State John F. Kerry carries no known prohibition against North Korea performing Iran’s nuclear arms research, paid out of the $100 billion to $150 billion the deal frees up in Iranian assets.
“There appears to be little in the Iran nuclear agreement that would prevent Iran from continuing or increasing its personnel and financial investments in North Korea’s future missile and nuclear warhead programs,” Mr. Niksch told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee in July. “It seems to me that North Korea may receive from Iran upwards of $2 [billion] to $3 billion annually from Iran for the various forms of collaboration between them.”
John Brennan: U.S. watching for nuclear cooperation between Iran, North Korea
5. Since the Obama administration was either too stupid to know that Iran was paying North Korea to develop missiles and nuclear weapons....
...or....Obama was completely in favor of it.
Hence....the title of this OP.....The Obama Administration...Unhinged.
1. This is the latest news about the 'Hermit Kingdom'...
"TOKYO (AP) -- North Korea has conducted a ground test of a new type of high-thrust rocket engine that leader Kim Jong Un is calling a revolutionary breakthrough for the country's space program, the North's state media said Sunday."
News from The Associated Press
a. "North Korea's stated goal is to develop a nuclear-armed ballistic missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland.
....ultimately necessary to hit the U.S. mainland (San Francisco is 8,200 km away; New York City is 10,800 km).
Once you have an ICBM missile you have to put an atomic warhead on the end. North Korea currently possesses enough nuclear material for about 15 such weapons...."
Can North Korea Actually Hit The U.S. With A Nuclear Missile?
2. How about Iran, to whom the past administration has awarded over $100 billion, and the go-ahead to develop nuclear weapons?
3. Now....let's see where those two stories coincide...
"North Korea: Iran's Pathway to a Nuclear Weapon
A central plank of the Obama administration’s case for the nuclear deal just concluded by the P5+1 powers is that the agreement closes off "all pathways” by which the Iranian regime could acquire a nuclear capability, at least for the coming decade.
That, however, simply isn’t true. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the new nuclear bargain is officially called, only addresses the overt means by which Iran might go nuclear. A covert path to the bomb, entailing the procurement of materiel from foreign suppliers, still remains open to Iran, if it chooses to take that route.
....over the past three decades, Iran and the Stalinist regime of the Kim dynasty in North Korea have erected a formidable alliance—the centerpiece of which is cooperation on nuclear and ballistic-missile capabilities."
North Korea: Iran's Pathway to a Nuclear Weapon
4. "Experts say the deal worked out by Secretary of State John F. Kerry carries no known prohibition against North Korea performing Iran’s nuclear arms research, paid out of the $100 billion to $150 billion the deal frees up in Iranian assets.
“There appears to be little in the Iran nuclear agreement that would prevent Iran from continuing or increasing its personnel and financial investments in North Korea’s future missile and nuclear warhead programs,” Mr. Niksch told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee in July. “It seems to me that North Korea may receive from Iran upwards of $2 [billion] to $3 billion annually from Iran for the various forms of collaboration between them.”
John Brennan: U.S. watching for nuclear cooperation between Iran, North Korea
5. Since the Obama administration was either too stupid to know that Iran was paying North Korea to develop missiles and nuclear weapons....
...or....Obama was completely in favor of it.
Hence....the title of this OP.....The Obama Administration...Unhinged.