Did 'Texas of Evil' Cut-and-Run from a Bushed 'doctrine'?

Reeling from defeats at every foreign policy misadventure, the White House bunker finally had to settle for some pragmatism. This past week the oil-soaked regime in Washington D.C. had to shamelessly Cut-and-Run from its saber-rattling threats of pre-emptive war on N. Korea. Under prodding from the Chinese government, the USA Empire had to retreat back to a diplomatic solution, for a deal it culd have secured 5 years ago--had it not threaten to nuke North Korea out of existence since 2002. Did the consequences of the real world finally pre-empt the Cheney-Bush Empire's aggressive penchant for military dominance in every instance of foreign policy? Only with the active resistance and colossal blunders on Washington's part will the Planetary community be able to constrain th decaying but still violence-prone Imperial Monster.