How does the Bush doctrine apply here? There is a provable connection between NK and the nuclear blackmarket; Nuclear materials that are already known to have transited to Pakistan. There's a very thin membrane between PK and the various Islamist terrorist groups.
So why doesn't Bush go in? Is it possible the USGOV has intel NK already has functional nukes, and would use them against Seoul or Japan if the US interceded? Or even missile capability that would reach the US west coast, who knows?
Is it maybe a political calculation that the US is too war-weary for a third major military operation, especially in an election year?
I have a feeling there's alot of info that's not being shared with the public here.
war with North Korea will be very difficult. The Chinese helped out last time. What their official stance is, I haven't heard, but they don't seem too vocal against it.
IOW, China always has more to say about Taiwan than North Korea.
"So why doesn't Bush go in?"
China.
I wonder which would flip the Chinese out worse- a nuclear-armed Mad Hatter on their border, or Americans?
One thing missing from the connection is mooslimes. North Korea is not a mooslime nation. It would be hard to make the nitwit populations believe that Kim John ILL has links to kerrorists. Though this is just the thing that could lead the Islamonazis to bid cash for nukes from the North Koreans...and maybe get one or two.
I think the point is, that NK **WAS** ripe for a preemption. Our President has allowed the Pandora's Box to be opened. It is too late politically to intervene.
I can only PRAY he was privy to information we weren't and that he will go in at the right time. They can not be allowed to just start lighthing off nukes. Perhaps the Chicoms gave us some reassurance?? Just grasping at straws trying to make sense of a situation that in my rational mind of limited knowledge makes NO DAMN SENSE! /rant
The Bush doctrine applied in 1991. Unfortunately, that was one year before Clinton got elected and everyone decided to focus on stopping ethnic conflicts that had nothing to do with national security.