Within this long read is a logical question. Just what, according to this writer, is the BUSH DOCTRINE??
Pillar I: Repudiation of moral relativism and an entirely unapologetic assertion of the need for moral judgment in the realm of world affairs.
Pillar II: No longer would we treat terrorists as criminals to be arrested and brought to trial, but as the irregular troops of a military alliance at war with the United States, and indeed the civilized world as a whole.
Pillar III: The U.S. has the right to preempt--if we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.
Pillar IV: Nations are either with us or against us in the war on terror. Palestinians (who have been treated as pawns) must have a leader actually committed to poeace and must stop the support of terrorist groups.
This is a brief summary of a previous similar lengthy article in the magazine Comentary by the same author.