THE U.N. SWINGS INTO ACTION - AT 8:04 P.M. ET: Watching the international community marching shoulder to shoulder.  From The Politico:

The 15-nation UN Security Council unanimously adopted a statement noting that the launch a week ago was in contravention of an earlier resolution and demanded that no further launches take place.

It took a while -- and no small bit of cajoling of the Russians and Chinese -- but a compromise was eventually fashioned by agreeing to issue to a "statement" rather than a "resolution."

“The U.S. is very pleased that the Security Council today issued a strong, unanimous statement clearly and unequivocally condemning the launch,” U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said after the deal was reached.

COMMENT:  Well, we certainly are impressed, aren't we?  What's next?  A statement expressing emotional upset over genocide?  A hard-hitting comment about mass murder in Darfur?

As we argued earlier, we lost in the U.N.  The mainstream media just won't put it that way.

April 13, 2009