One can see it here, right here in Asia.
We, the USA, are the laughing stock of Asia. In terms of North Korea, as viewed from the Asian perspective, we are no stronger under Bush in 2007 then we were under Clinton in 1997.
It has all come unravelled. The appeasers have won.
Some legacy, Mr. Bush. On January 20, 2009 you leave office and head for a small ranch in Texas. Kim Jong il remains in power, eating cavier, with 10-15 nukes under his control (10-15 nukes that were NOT there under the Clinton regime) and developing even more agressive ballistic technology (revised scuds for example) to attack Japan and our US forces there, and moving toward ICBM capabilities.
SOME GREAT LEGACY. PEACE IN OUR TIME.
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Who stupid idea was this AIT Dubya or Sunshine Condi
This is Kim Jong-il's game plan. Incremental maneuver to get to the point blank range. He may not live long enough to see it succeed, but it has been his long-term plan all along.
Uh, yeah, A.I.T...maybe you've been breathing too many fumes in Shinagawa to remember that this is how The Republic works over here. 4, maybe 8 years max, then the most powerful man in the world hands it over to the next guy. Peacefully. Over a traditional morning tea served by the outgoing first lady.
Dictators, see, they get to stay in until they are killed, and when you kill them, you smash Pandora's box.
What you prefer? Bush nukes Iran, NoKo, Putin etal on his last day in office, and THEN go to his ranch?
Leave 2, 3 maybe 4 more Iraq-like unintended mega-consequences for the next guy/gal to deal with?! Nobody can even agree on what a post-Kim peninsula would look like! More socialist/pro-China? Millions dead?
Calm down willya?
Imagine if Iraq -had- had nukes, like NoKo, and during the collapse of the Kim regime, those nukes went wandering as so many things did in the immediate chaos of the Iraq invasion. Then what?
Oh. And by the way, Saddam is still dead.