North Korea says no to Nukes and Hamas breaks with Iran highlights today’s Obama Administration’s Foreign Policy

Commentators, pundits and experts wonder aloud why it is that this President and his Administration does not get the credit that they deserve.  While it is true that it is due to those opposing this president at every step are allowed to misrepresent his accomplishments, it may be also because many news agencies concentrate more on the confrontations than they do the real meat of the argument.

Take for example an article written by Laura Rozen for The Envoy titled U.S. announces diplomatic breakthrough with North Korea.  All day today, we have heard nothing much mentioned about this huge milestone in the fight to give credit where it belongs.  Instead they have spoken mostly about the Arizona and Michigan primaries.  Now while that is also an important news story, I believe that something this huge would at least get an honorable mention.

In this article Ms. Rozen reports that “the United States announced a major diplomatic breakthrough with North Korea Wednesday.  Under an agreement reached in direct talks in Beijing last week, North Korea has agreed to allow the return of International Atomic Energy Agency nuclear inspectors, as well as to implement a moratorium on long-range missile tests, nuclear tests, and nuclear activities at Yongbyon, including uranium enrichment activities, the State Department said. In return, the United States will provide North Korea with a major food aid package.”  If this development does not warrant a few mentions in our news coverage, I don’t know what would.  Not to mention an article by Tony Karon of Time in his article titled Hamas Signals a Break with Iran, but is That Good for Israel?  In it he reports that “Tuesday's announcement that the Hamas leadership has officially relocated from Damascus, and its public declarations of support for the Syrian rebels, suggest a dramatic political break with Iran -- and with it the end of any illusion Tehran might have harbored of exerting influence in the new revolutionary Arab mainstream.”  Now while this may not be even close to a homerun for diplomatic solutions instead of military ones, it is progress and with anything else that is worth having, will take some time to get the results we all wish and that are world peace.

If not much of televisions precious news time can be used to share these accomplishments with America, the least that they can do is give it a few minutes before telling and repeating all the speeches by Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul.  Just my opinion and I could be wrong.