"There's already been a retreat from the radicalism in Bush administration foreign policy," said Walter Russell Mead, a Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow. "You have a feeling that even Bush isn't saying, 'Hey, that was great. Let's do it again.' "

If true, that's very good news- the mindless tendency "to want to try the same thing over again" was the only thing that really worried me concerning the nation building effort in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unfortuately the assertion is probably bullshit like the rest of what was said in the rest of article.

I would say that Bush doctrine is very much alive, the only thing dying is the media distortion of it.

Neither war in Afghanistan or Iraq were preemptive. And regarding these conflicts, the Administration did not act unilateral. Both of these lies were generated by the media and have no basis on facts.