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Axis uber Alles? Bush is not dealing adequately with Iran and North Korea.(George W. Bush)
TO his credit, President Bush is not the type to say raison d'etre out loud, but he nonetheless gave one to his administration in the 2002 State of the Union address. Having summarized the intolerable threats that arise when terrorists, rogue regimes, and weapons of mass destruction intersect, and having christened Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and their like the "Axis of Evil," Bush made a pledge: "The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons."
That resolution--forged in the flames of September 11 and tempered by the realization that there are far deadlier weapons than jetliners--has been the central mission of Bush's presidency. It subsumes even the Iraq War, whose first and best justification was that a regime as dangerous as Saddam Hussein's could not be allowed to exist if it did not verifiably renounce the pursuit of WMD. Bush can fall short on any number of goals and still reckon his presidency a success. But if his nonproliferation efforts fail, so does he, full stop.
Five years on, how goes the fight? North Korea has tested an atomic bomb; Iran is steadily increasing the size of its uranium-enrichment operation; and the "international community," if not quite an assembly of eunuchs, is doing its best to ...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 1, 2006 700+ words
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...action to pull North Korea back from the...situation with North Korea dominated the questioning, President Bush called for stiff...U.S. and North Korea should talk...party framework, President Bush pointed to the...
- North Korea responds to President Bush speech on nuclear policy.
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(From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Pyongyang, 4 March: US President Bush said in an official speech on national policy that "North Korea was deceiving the world and developing nuclear weapons and impaired its system...
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- News wire article from: International Wire July 7, 2006 700+ words
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire July 4, 2006 700+ words
...a missile launch by North Korea. Is it the provocative...North Carolina where President Bush spent the holiday with...a missile launch by North Korea. U.S. officials...several weeks have said North Korea was preparing to test...
- Missile Launched by North Korea; Discovery Launch Successful; President Bush...
- News wire article from: International Wire July 4, 2006 700+ words
...a missile launch by North Korea. Is it the provocative...North Carolina where President Bush spent the holiday with...a missile launch by North Korea. U.S. officials...several weeks have said North Korea was preparing to test...
- U.N. Security Council Unanimously Adopts Sanctions Resolution Against North...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 1, 2006 700+ words
...authority in Pyongyang. It is not the aimed at the people of North Korea, who are already suffering greatly. We now expect the DPRK...to lift the measures imposed today. But the choice is for North Korea to accept the wishes of the international community or to...
- U.N. Security Council Unanimously Adopts Sanctions Resolution Against North...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 1, 2006 700+ words
...this taking place in the same hour that the 15-member Security Council at the U.N. voted to impose sanctions against North Korea, because of its recent nuclear test. Outraged, the North Korean ambassador to the U.N. called the adoption of the vote...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire September 14, 2006 700+ words
...U.S. Newswire/ -- With President Bush focusing on North Korea today during a meeting with South...fact check on the failure of President Bush's North Korea policy follows below. "On President Bush's watch, and with the Rubberstamp...
Source: HighBeam Research, Axis uber Alles? Bush is not dealing adequately with Iran and North...