Where are the hawks on North Korea? Faced with a real crisis, Bush does nothing.(George W. Bush)
American Prospect, The, February, 2003 by Lindsay, James M.
DOES GEORGE W. BUSH ACTUALLY BELIEVE HIS own foreign-policy pronouncements? A year ago he made North Korea a charter member of the "axis of evil" and vowed not to "permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons." The National Security Strategy he issued last September warned that the United States would strike preemptively to make good on that pledge.
Bush told Bob Woodward that he "loathed" Kim Jong Il, North Korea's "dear leader." On Jan. 3, Bush added that he had "no heart for ...
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