THe Obama camp has nothing to do with this, Bruce; take off your blinders. There is no reason for any of the items cited by Gerson to be especially identified as "The Bush Doctrine"--they are just ordinary operating principles, for the most part. Unilateral aggression, on the other hand, is a salient departure from tradition, and was not embraced as a major policy by anyone else, and is much more important than those other sugar-pop statements as a "Doctrine." Unilateral aggression is as big a change of position for the US as the Monroe Doctrine was.


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