Did you know?

I knew what the Bush doctrine was before I forgot about it. Once we had invaded all the countries we could afford and have enough troops to handle, the Bush doctrine became sort of irrelevent and I did let it slip my mind until reminded.

Maybe it's because of where I lived and the level of political coverage I had available in so many forms, but I've always known what the Bush Doctrine is. I would have to believe that it received a lot of national press, too.

I was not away about the Bush doctrine, but if we had had a Roosevelt doctrine, then perhaps America would not have not had Pearl Harbor. I can see that Palim is rather not as familiar with its terms and I think the ones that think she is an airhead are stupid and would rather be ruled by a dictator like Obama. In fact if they were living in 1930 Germany, they would vote for Hitler. Palin is after all a mother and concerned with the safety of her family and also women think different from men. She would probably try to find a different solution like getting the government of that country to go after the terrorists themselves and have America help. Men want action and get the bad guys before they get them. As I see it the Bush Doctrine is limited in that it can only be used on nations who produce terrorist but are too cowardly to raise an army and try to invade America itself. It can only be used on those nations where they had secret training grounds and the terrorists dress like everyone else. In those cases, the Bush Doctrine is a good way to protect America. Go after the terrorists on their own ground and if the country is protecting them, the fight extends against it and its leaders.

Yes, I was aware of it and I find it troubling that Sarah Palin didn't know what it was but even more so that she didn't say so outright. For those of you here who weren't aware of this, that's different because I don't think anyone here is oneof the Presidential or Vice Presidential nominees. Annie

"the bush doctrin" is not an official written policy but rather a catch phrase attatched to his foriegn pilicy used by the media and analysts to describe it. You won't find it in any dictionary. It will probably be seen in histoy books in that term. Much like "the powel doctrine", a term used to describe Colen Powel's aproach to applied military strategy. Or the Kennedy doctrine, used to describe his policy initiatives in Latin America. There is no official "Bush doctrine". It's a journalistic term pick pick pick

Yes I knew it was the Bush doctrine and I find it pretty worrying that someone aspiring to be VP of the US doesn't know what was the central plank of Bush's foreign policy over the last 7 years since 9/11

she asked "which one" which would have been my first question too. It could have applied to a number of things, the only gaffe was on the part of Charles gibson there