How many people know what the Bush Doctrine actually is? If you asked 10 people what they thought it was there likely would be 10 different interpretations. The so-called Bush Doctrine has actually changed and evolved.....some would say devolved...if that is an actual word...over the years.

I would wager even Obama and Biden would give different interpretations of what the so called Bush Doctrine is.

Experts back Palin in washington Post headlien article

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You just could not make thus stuff up

After all the leftie wet dreaming that this was the end of Sarah Palin

This is just so funny

It's the beginning of the end for her. She clearly had not even ever heard the phrase "Bush Doctrine" before, much less did she even have an inkling as to what it was. The blank stare and glazed look in her eyes said it all.

Guess she didn't have enough time to pray for the answer.

All of a sudden Bush's Doctrine has credibility? And as dumb as he is how could he possibly have any kind of doctrine at all? Something tells me this so called Doctrine is a figment of somebody's imagination.

No -- Bush specifically announced the doctrine as a doctrine. He has redefined it several times -- but it does have a conceptual nucleus. Any serious student or aspiring practitioner of foreign policy should have enough of an understanding of the doctrine to have an opinion about it -- even if the opinion is that it is so ill-defined as to be impossible to implement.

Palin's problem is not just that she didn't understand the Bush doctrine. It is that she didn't seem to have a clue that foreign policies are defined by and made up by doctrines.

This article makes the point well:

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In defining the Bush doctrine as “Bush’s world view” – Palin failed to understand how foreign policies work, and what a foreign policy doctrine is. I am shocked that an American could graduate from Middle School with this lack of knowledge. I remember being taught about the Monroe Doctrine (no European colonization in the Western Hemisphere) and the Truman Doctrine (that the U.S. would support free people in their attempt to resist Soviet domination). Since then, I thought that the Reagan Doctrine (that the U.S. would assist anti-communist resistance movements in their attempts to throw off Soviet domination) and the Powell Doctrine (the doctrine setting up the criteria for a well-grounded military role in foreign policy – disregarded by W) were common currency among anyone who was paying attention to American foreign policy.

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Now, I would not have expected all, or even most, citizens to know about the ins-and-outs of our nation’s foreign policy doctrine (but I would expect most Americans to at least know what a foreign policy doctrine is – and to remember the Monroe Doctrine). However, I do expect any person seeking Federal office to know these details and this history. Palin does not – and it is as humiliating (for our nation) as it is frightening (for our world).

Beathan

No, it is not. It is the theory espoused by George Bush in September of 2002 as part of his rationale to go to war with Iraq.

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Now, you did make a good point that if you asked 10 people to explain the Bush Doctrine, you would probably get 10 different answers. I probably couldn't go into that much detail about it either.

But here's a difference between Sarah Palin and me: I'm not running for a national office on the ticket of a major political party. She is. And I'm not trying desperately to convince the world about my extensive foreign policy credentials. She is. Someone as well versed in foreign affairs and policies as she claims to be surely would have at least heard of the Bush Doctrine by now -- six years later. Clearly she had not.

And you know what? If she and the GOP had not made such a big deal out of all this, if they had not gone on and on about all this alledged foreign policy experience, it probably wouldn't bother me so much. But once again, with Sarah Palin, things aren't what they have been packaged up and presented to be. Look a little more closely, and the facts that have been conveniently disregarded start to show through.

If Palin was so in lock step with Bush.....then would you not think she would know all about the Bush Doctrine? Funny how she does not know anything about what you say is Bush's most significant doctrine.

So first you say that the Bush Doctrine doesn't exist, and now, when presented with evidence that it does, that Palin's ignorance about it proves she's not a Bush clone? And that somehow qualifies her to be VP? Seriously? That's your story?

Just to clarify where I stand on all of this. I have absolutely no use for any politician....not a single one. Have not voted in over 25 years and do not intend to waste my time this time around either. There is not a penny's difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Corporations run this country...and anybody with any sense knows that.

No --

Actually I was surprised that when she was forced off-script, she said things that appeared to support Obama's foreign policy positions more than either Bush's or McCains. I chalk that up to the fact that Obama's position really amounts to common sense.

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Beathan

She clearly has little to no foreign policy knowledge. She makes GW Bush look like a diplomat and a scholar.

This is what the republican party is comfortable with offering Americans to lead our country?

Its an insult to every moderately intelligent American.

For the rest of America though, its a "breath of fresh air".

Will the low IQ voters be once again fooled?

We will see.

'This is what the republican party is comfortable with offering Americans to lead our country?

Its an insult to every moderately intelligent American.

For the rest of America though, its a "breath of fresh air".

Will the low IQ voters be once again fooled?'

you guys need a slogan. how about

VOTE FOR US, STUPID

Theodore Roosevelt with his big stick fathered the 'Bush Doctrine,' a perversion of the 'Monroe Doctrine.' In 1821 John Quincy Adams said, ‘America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.’ The United States of America under the leadership of George W Bush has become the monster. George has run out of puff. As a finale gesture he's handing the big republican stick on to GI John & deputy Sarah, hockey mum & wolf shooter extraordinaire from Alaska. Bravo!

Perhaps the Bush Doctrine should be best described as Bush's Wet Dream or Wet dream World View.

It has been the problem for the entire 8 years of this administration.We have been living the Cheney Doctrine, do things worldwide that add to the profits of those companies that he and his close friends are invested in and the effect on the world be damned.

Bush is a nitwit, always has been, McCain and Palin are no-nothing unblinking hawks who would continue shooting from the hip with no regard for who may die, moose or muslim!

Leo Harold