Speaking of responses. Newt Gingrich had his say on what he would have done to handle this situation had he been in the White House. He would have disabled the darn thing before North Korea had the chance to launch it. Clearly, Newt is not living in a fantasy world, built on a fantasy foreign policy based on a world without nuclear weapons. (That would be Barack Obama's world.) Newt recognizes the issues at stake and the pieces of the puzzle that are moving into action: North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Russia.

Barack Obama's response? Call for a Global Summit on Nuclear Security. Obama actually thinks that we can achieve a world without nuclear weapons. Please tell me this man is not that naïve. This can never be. Instead of living with this completely unrealistic pipe dream, we need to create a world where rogue nations and Islamic terrorist groups know that to seek one of these weapons is to guarantee their own destruction.

Here's how Newt would have handled things: "There are three or four techniques that could have been used, from unconventional forces to standoff capabilities, to say: 'We're not going to tolerate a North Korean missile launch, period.' I mean, the world's either got to decide that North Korea is utterly dangerous ... I'd recommend, look at electromagnetic pulse, which changes every ... equation about how risky these weapons are."

Here's the bottom line. Somewhere on this globe some nation or some organization is going to be more powerful than all of the others. Who is going to carry the big stick? Right now the choices seem to be between the United States, Russia, China or the United Nations. Go ahead ... chose one. One of these four entities will be the world's most powerful ... who do you want it to be? Today both Russia and China are making excuses for North Korea's actions. Neither seems willing to do much about it. We know the United Nations isn't going to act. We have to wait for Israel to attack Hamas for the U.N. to get into gear. That leaves - at least among the world's truly powerful nations - the United States. What are we doing? We're asking the U.N. to do something, we're talking about talking, and we're promoting some fantasy about a world free of nuclear weapons.