Have you ever heard of the Bush Doctrine? I only ask because Sarah Palin apparently never heard of the Bush Doctrine and she's running for the second highest office in the land.
But since, I assume, your time is not crammed with moose hunting and negotiating sensitive foreign policy issues with your neighbor, Russia, you know that the Bush Doctrine holds that the U.S. may pre-emtively strike a foreign nation that appears to pose a military threat to the United States. The Iraq war is an example of the Bush Doctrine in action (or inaction, as the case may be).
I was watching the TV show "60 Minutes" a few weeks ago that featured a piece on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. During the course of the piece a Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz was asked whether the present economic crisis was foreseeable. He responded that not only was the current crisis foreseeable, it was actually foreseen two years ago.
Now I find that interesting. What action, I ask you, did President Bush take two years ago (or since) to pre-emptively address the coming economic crisis? Apparently, he took no action at all.
Ironic, don't you think? The President gets us involved in a war in Iraq based on less than credible intelligence that that country posed a military threat to the United States, but did nothing to preemtively address an economic crisis that was actually foreseen two years ago!
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"We will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."
-George W. Bush, September 20, 2001 address to the United States Congress.
I think that all political observers that accused Sarah Palin of not knowing about the Bush Doctrine need to reassess their beliefs. She may not have been able to communicate the principles intelligibly, but she has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt, that she has internalized an understanding of the tactics that the approach involves. The McCain/Palin ticket are simply applying the Bush Doctrine to its political opponent. The accusations that Palin and McCain are making by insinuation have very real consequences, and they need to be held accountable for them.
Read SERENDIPITY.
Had Obama been asked about the Bush doctrine shortly after announcing that he was running for President, it's unlikely he would have known what the Bush Doctrine was, either. This was an obvious "gotcha" question that was disguised as a seemingly easy one. We'll never know how Obama would have handled questions like this because he never was asked any. The questions he was asked were the type that he could have anticipated.
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