Bush doctrine

gbaikie — 9/13/2008 2:20:56 AM (archived)

"Charlie Gibson's Gaffe

By Charles Krauthammer
Saturday, September 13, 2008; Page A17

"At times visibly nervous . . . Ms. Palin most visibly stumbled when she was asked by Mr. Gibson if she agreed with the Bush doctrine. Ms. Palin did not seem to know what he was talking about. Mr. Gibson, sounding like an impatient teacher, informed her that it meant the right of 'anticipatory self-defense.' "

-- New York Times, Sept. 12

Informed her? Rubbish.

The New York Times got it wrong. And Charlie Gibson got it wrong.

There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration -- and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today. It is utterly different. "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202457.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

Linked from http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/

If you bother to read Krauthammer's article, you might begin to understand why I've said Bush's foreign policy is liberal rather than conservative. Assuming you have understanding of these terms beyond cartoon concepts.

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Bush doctrine - gbaikie - 9/13/2008 2:20:56 AM
- Totally clueless - Robert - 9/15/2008 2:29:20 AM
  - re: Totally clueless - gbaikie - 9/15/2008 3:45:27 AM
    - Totally clueless II - Robert - 9/15/2008 4:39:05 PM
      - re: Totally clueless II - gbaikie - 9/15/2008 8:18:05 PM
        
        Give it up - Robert - 9/16/2008 1:09:10 AM
        
        re: Give it up - gbaikie - 9/16/2008 5:10:36 AM
        
        Heh. - TB - 9/16/2008 4:14:06 AM
        
        Did you have a point? - Robert - 9/16/2008 8:08:06 PM
        
        See answer to alcaray, below. (n/t) - TB - 9/16/2008 9:21:54 PM
        
        No, seriously - Robert - 9/16/2008 10:50:13 PM
        
        Yes. I do. - TB - 9/17/2008 12:11:16 AM
        
        re: Yes. I do. - Robert - 9/17/2008 3:27:34 AM
        
        Reading off the cards. - TB - 9/17/2008 4:44:14 AM
        
        Casual, informationless slander. Kind of like Tech's riff on librarians. - alcaray - 9/16/2008 5:16:59 AM
        
        Okay, just one try... - TB - 9/16/2008 5:30:47 AM
        
        If we counted them up... - alcaray - 9/16/2008 6:11:00 AM
        
        If she can put liberals into such a frothy rage as the past few weeks, she has to be a good person. (n/t) - Lee - 9/16/2008 11:55:16 PM
        
        We love Palin! - alcaray - 9/17/2008 12:43:58 AM
        
        She's just regular folks. - Lee - 9/17/2008 3:15:34 AM
        
        Doesn't cut it - Lindy - 9/15/2008 10:16:05 PM
        
        Remember when you guys kept telling us "everything's changed" after 9/11? - alcaray - 9/15/2008 9:34:17 PM
  - You shouldn't be so harsh, Robert. - ER - 9/15/2008 2:58:48 AM
- re: Bush doctrine - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/15/2008 12:13:44 AM
  - Bush Doctrine: Leftist speak by gloabalists for globalists, leftist speak, bush hating anti-americanism... And term used by Dick Cheney . - Yeti - 9/15/2008 8:19:35 PM
    - And also used by that boil of liberalism on the hide of glorious conservative thought, the American Enterprise Institute - Yeti - 9/15/2008 9:26:30 PM
    - Here, I still have it in my bookmarks: www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.pdf - Yeti - 9/15/2008 9:04:09 PM
  - You are free to find another name for it, I suppose. - alcaray - 9/15/2008 8:57:56 AM
- I thought the Bush Doctrine was to make the oil company executives rich... - Ima Liberal - 9/15/2008 12:12:02 AM
- Typical Krauthammering nitpick CYA maneuver. - ER - 9/14/2008 2:07:27 PM
  - An Obviously Ambiguous Ambush - Marsby - 9/15/2008 1:25:53 AM
    - re: An Obviously Ambiguous Ambush - ER - 9/15/2008 1:34:37 AM
  - re: Typical Krauthammering nitpick CYA maneuver. - gbaikie - 9/14/2008 4:20:50 PM
    - Yeah, "ALL nations of the world are "ready" for democracy" - Lindy - 9/16/2008 12:17:13 AM
  - re: But Palin got it right - SteveS - 9/14/2008 2:43:19 PM
    - I'm trying to give her the benefit of the doubt. - ER - 9/14/2008 3:36:25 PM
- Odd that I, and most other observers, knew exactly what he was referring to.... - ARRELL - 9/13/2008 10:16:59 PM
  - re: Odd that I, and most other observers, knew exactly what he was referring to.... - gbaikie - 9/14/2008 3:16:09 AM
    - Thanks - McFly - 9/14/2008 12:14:41 PM
      - re: I,m amazed at how wrong you guys are - SteveS - 9/14/2008 2:47:34 PM
        
        Careful Steve, you're going to get dizzy spinning like that - McFly - 9/14/2008 6:40:36 PM
        
        re: Funny - SteveS - 9/16/2008 4:07:15 PM
  - She didn't know any of them. It should have been a smorgasbord. - Bowser - 9/13/2008 10:27:17 PM
    - ??? (n/t) - ? - 9/13/2008 11:07:16 PM
- If you read Krauthammer regularly, you probably do believe Bush is a liberal. (n/t) - ER - 9/13/2008 11:27:13 AM
- "I've said Bush's foreign policy is liberal rather than conservative." So much for you. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/13/2008 2:25:36 AM

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