Just for the record.
The Bush Doctrine is a journalistic term used to describe some foreign policy principles of United States president George W. Bush, enunciated in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Scholars identify seven different "Bush Doctrines," including the notion that states that harbor terrorists should be treated no differently than terrorists themselves, the willingness to use a "coalition of the willing" if the United Nations does not address threats, the doctrine of preemptive war, and the president's second-term "freedom agenda".[1]
[From Bush Doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
The first usage of the term may have been when conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer used the term in February 2001 to refer to the president's unilateral approach to national missile defense well before September 11th.[2][3]
I'm starting to feel like I'm defending the bad guys here and I don't like that but, damn, when we have so many really important questions to be asking why do we persist in yipping about trivia? There really is no "Bush Doctrine," Charlie.
Let's get on with it.
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