No one talked much about the "Bush Doctrine"

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No one talked much about the "Bush Doctrine"

Edited on Fri Sep-12-08 03:37 PM by underpants

That was the meme last night. David Gergen and others (saw another one this morning) were saying

~"Look no one knew what the Bush Doctrine was"
~"I talked to many people in DC this morning and only half of them knew what the Bush Doctrine is"

There is also the self fulfilling idea that since the press didn't talk about it it wasn't relevant, well known, or well discussed

DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: No, she didn't know what the Bush doctrine was. But, Anderson, I don't think most people know what the Bush doctrine is or was.

You know, we don't normally talk in the press -- I must say, on this one, I'm sympathetic to her, because we don't ordinarily use that a shorthand. We haven't in a long time. We talk about the preemptive doctrine of George Bush, but we don't ordinarily, you know, I think as citizens or as journalists, go around talking about -- quote -- "the Bush doctrine."
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100007219&docId=l:850038179&start=4

So, on that, I have to say, I don't think that was -- I think it would be unfair to conclude that she (INAUDIBLE) to the question.

I googled "Bush Doctrine"

References

1. ^ Editorial Observer; President Bush and the Middle East Axis of Ambiguity, Steven R. Weisman, The New York Times, April 13, 2002
2. ^ Edwards Rejects the "War on Terror", Mike Allen, Time Magazine, May 2, 2007
3. ^ First Things First, Mark Levin, ...and another thing (National Review blog), August 16, 2006
4. ^ Confronting Iraq, Susan Page, USA Today Education, March 17, 2003
5. ^ a b National Security Strategy of the United StatesNational Security Council, September 20, 2002.
6. ^ Krauthammer, Charles (2001-02-26). "<http://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/2001/03/05/doctrine.html The Bush doctrine: In American foreign policy, a new motto: Don't ask. Tell>", CNN.
7. ^ Editorial (2003-04-13). "Aftermath; The Bush Doctrine", New York Times.
8. ^ Editorial (2002-09-22). "The Bush Doctrine", New York Times.
9. ^ Gitlin, Todd (January/February 2003). "America's Age of Empire: The Bush Doctrine", Mother Jones. Retrieved on 2008-09-12.
10. ^ http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2006/
11. ^ Statement by the President in His Address to the Nation, September 11, 2001
12. ^ Project for the New American Century Statement of Principles, June 3, 1997
13. ^ Keir A. Lieber and Robert J. Lieber, <"The Bush National Security Strategy" http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itps/1202/ijpe/pj7-4lieber.htm>
14. ^ Chicago Tribune, <"The Bush Doctrine" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-bush-doctrinesep12,0,6804685.story>
15. ^ What the president reads, John F. Dickerson, Time, January 10, 2005
16. ^ Critics Say Bush Doctrine Might Provoke 1st Strike
17. ^ Globalissues.org The Bush Doctrine of Pre-emptive Strikes; A Global Pax Americana
18. ^ The Bush Doctrine's Vietnam Paradox
19. ^ Robert W. Tucker and David C. Hendrickson, "The Sources of American Legitimacy," Foreign Affairs (November/December 2004), pp. 18-32
20. ^ Richard Falk, "The New Bush Doctrine," The Nation July 15, 2002.
21. ^ Neta C. Crawford, Just War Theory and the U.S. Counterterror War
22. ^ Jeffrey Record, The Bush Doctrine and War with Iraq
23. ^ Patrick J. Buchanan, Whose War?, The American Conservative, March 24, 2003

18. Edward A. Kolodziej and Roger E. kanet, eds., From Superpower to Besieged Global Power: Restoring World Order after the Failure of the Bush Doctrine (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008).

External links

* Edward A. Kolodziej, Getting beyond the Bush Doctrine, Center for Global Studies, December, 2006.
* Roger Speed & Michael May, Dangerous Doctrine, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2005.
* Jeffery Record, The Bush Doctrine and War with Iraq, Parameters, Spring 2003. (html version)
* Chip Pitts et al., War, Law, and American Democracy , OpenDemocracy.net, October 25, 2006.
* George W. Bush et al., The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, September 2002
* Defense Policy Guidance 1992-1994
* Patrick Tyler. U.S. Strategy Plan Calls for Insuring No Rivals Develop A One-Superpower World, New York Times, March 8, 1992.
* http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2005/d20050318nms.pdf

Books

* Bacevich, Andrew J. The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced By War, New York & London, Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-517338-4
* Bennett, William J. Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism, New York, Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2003. ISBN 0-385-50680-5
* Chernus, Ira Monsters To Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin, Boulder, CO, Paradigm Publishers, 2006 ISBN 1-59451-276-0
* Dolan, Chris J. In War We Trust: The Bush Doctrine And The Pursuit Of Just War, Burlington, VA, Ashgate, 2005. ISBN 0-7546-4234-8
* Dolan, Chris J. and Betty Glad (eds.) Striking First: The Preventive War Doctrine and the Reshaping of U.S. Foreign Policy, New York & London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN 1-4039-6548-X
* Donnelly, Thomas The Military We Need: The Defense Requirements of the Bush Doctrine, Washington, D.C., American Enterprise Institute Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8447-4229-5
* Gaddis, John Lewis Surprise, Security, and the American Experience, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-674-01174-0
* Grandin, Greg Empire's Workshop: Latin America, The United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism, New York, Metropolitan Press, 2006. ISBN 0-8050-7738-3 <1>
* Hayes, Stephen S. The Brain: Paul Wolfowitz and the Making of the Bush Doctrine, New York, HarperCollins, Forthcoming (2007?). ISBN 0-06-072346-7
* Kaplan, Lawrence and William Kristol The War over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission, San Francisco, Encounter Books, 2003. ISBN 1-893554-69-4
* Kolodziej, Edward A. and Roger E. Kanet (eds.) From Superpower to Besieged Global Power: Restoring World Order after the Failure of the Bush Doctrine, Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8203-3074-7
* Shanahan, Timothy (ed.) Philosophy 9/11: Thinking about the War on Terrorism, Chicago & LaSalle, IL, Open Court, 2005 ISBN 0-8126-9582-8
* Smith, Grant F. Deadly Dogma, Washington, DC, Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, 2006. ISBN 0-9764437-4-0
* Tremblay, Rodrigue The New American Empire, West Conshohocken, PA, Infinity, 2004, ISBN 0-7414-1887-8
* Woodward, Bob Plan of Attack, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2004. ISBN 0-7432-5547-X
* Wright, Steven. The United States and Persian Gulf Security: The Foundations of the War on Terror, Ithaca Press, 2007 ISBN 978-0863723216
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Doctrine

External links

* Noam Chomsky, "How America Determines Friend and Foe,", Toronto Star, March 16, 2004.
* Bob Burnett, "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy," Common Dreams, June 30, 2005.
* Peter Baker and Michael Abramowitz, "A Governing Philosophy Rebuffed. Ruling Emphasizes Constitutional Boundaries," Washington Post, June 30, 2006.
* Gen. JC Christian, "The Bush Doctrine" (Chart), PatriotBoy Blogspot, February 26, 2007.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_doctrine

http://www.bushdoctrine.org/

Three Cheers for the Bush Doctrine
Monday, Mar. 07, 2005 By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/krauthammer/article/0,9565,1035052,00.html