More on Obama's Test

The other day, Joe Biden let slip that he could practically guarantee that Obama would be tested with an international crisis within six months of his election.  Bill Kristol expands on this at the Weekly Standard blog.

...Biden is forecasting inaction by Obama in the face of testing by a dictator. I suspect he's right in this forecast. McCain might want to clarify this point. It's not just that Obama's own running mate expects an international crisis early in his presidency. It's not just that Obama has a weak foreign policy record. It's that Biden himself expects what will appear to be a weak response from Obama to testing by a dictator.

Now Biden presumaby thinks such an apparently weak response would be in our long-term interest. But McCain needs to force that debate: "Sen. Obama, will you in fact do nothing in response to a Putin provocation against Ukraine or a final push by Ahmadinejad toward nuclear weapons? Isn't that what your running mate has forecast? Isn't it awfully dangerous to forecast weakness on the part of an American president?"

Now let's be clear.  I suspect there will be a test within six months regardless of who gets elected. The question is, what sort of response do we want our President to make?