Here, maybe all of you can do your homework and read this, before spouting off about topics that you haven’t even taken the time to research….

You aren’t helping the McCain/Palin campaign with your unexamined, misinformed responses here (which is fine by me!).
for what it’s worth, here you go:

The Bush Doctrine is a phrase used to describe various related foreign policy principles of United States president George W. Bush, created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The phrase initially described the policy that the United States had the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves, which was used to justify the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.[1] Later it came to include additional elements, including the controversial policy of preventive war, which held that the United States should depose foreign regimes that represented a potential or perceived threat to the security of the United States, even if that threat was not immediate (used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq); a policy of supporting democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating the spread of terrorism; and a willingness to pursue U.S. military interests in a unilateral way.[2][3][4] Some of these policies were codified in a National Security Council text entitled the National Security Strategy of the United States published on September 20, 2002.[5]

National Security Strategy of the United States
The main elements of the Bush Doctrine were delineated in a National Security Council document, the National Security Strategy of the United States, published on September 20, 2002.[6] This document is often cited as the definitive statement of the doctrine.[7][8][9] It was updated in 2006 and is stated as follows: [10]

” It is an enduring American principle that this duty obligates the government to anticipate and counter threats, using all elements of national power, before the threats can do grave damage. The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of inaction – and the more compelling the case for taking anticipatory action to defend ourselves, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy’s attack. There are few greater threats than a terrorist attack with WMD. To forestall or prevent such hostile acts by our adversaries, the United States will, if necessary, act preemptively in exercising our inherent right of self-defense. ”
Components
The Bush Doctrine has been formulated as a collection of strategy principles, practical policy decisions, and a set of logical rationales and ideas for guiding United States foreign policy.[11] Two main pillars are identified for the doctrine: preemptive strikes against potential enemies and promoting democratic regime change.[11][12]

The George W. Bush administration claims that the United States is locked in a global war; a war of ideology, in which its enemies are bound together by a common ideology and a common hatred of democracy.[11][13][14][15][16][17]

Out of the National Security Stategy, four main points are highlighted as the core to the Bush Doctrine: Preemption, Military Primacy, New Multilateralism, and the Spread of Democracy.[18] The document emphasized preemption by stating: “America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones. We are menaced less by fleets and armies than by catastrophic technologies in the hands of the embittered few.” and required “defending the United States, the American people, and our interests at home and abroad by identifying and destroying the threat before it reaches our borders.”[19]

Then Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, in 2006 stated that: “If I were rating, I would say we probably deserve a D or D+ as a country as how well we’re doing in the battle of ideas that’s taking place. I’m not going to suggest that it’s easy, but we have not found the formula as a country.”[16]

Unilateralism
Elements of the Bush Doctrine were evident in the first months of Bush’s presidency. Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer used the term in February 2001 to refer to the president’s increased unilateralism in foreign policy, specifically regarding the president’s decision to withdraw from the ABM treaty.[20][21]

Welcome to RV.

Membership is voluntary in the Catholic Church. I can leave and join another faith, but will be welcomed back to the Catholic Church if I so choose.

Many people now don’t understand what’s really going on with Government.

With Sarah, I hope she will make foreign relations easily understandable to the common people and let the people be given a chance to say what they actually believe when it comes to foreign policies and in going into war.

That includes treaties and economic sanctions to other countries.

McCain and especially Barack Obama cannot be fully trusted.

LET ONE OF US BE THERE IN THE GOVERNMENT DISCOURSE AND POLICY MAKING WRT NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN RELATIONS.

Go Sarah!

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Georgia Tech is usually a powerhouse so you should end up doing well. There are growing pains with any new coach so if it doesn’t happen this year, it will within 2.

I’ve stopped hoping for a Rose Bowl..I just love my Spartans..no prettier campus in Michigan.

People get whatever they want out of the Palin interview. If they like her, it was very good. If they are against her because she threatens their Messiah and Savior, she was awful, Gibson tore her up, she’s not ready to be VP, yadda yadda yadda.