Sarah should have known that the Bush Doctrine meant no longer waiting to be attacked before taking military action. Or defending the concept of a preemptive war. I knew that, she should have. But that was no big deal for me. “Wet foot dry foot” is I think a better know policy then the Bush Doctrine, and it seems very foolish to go into a Cuban-American community and not have any idea of US immigration policy towards Cuba. I mean really, that’s like going to South Texas and having no idea about US immigration policy towards Mexican illegals.
—”Sarah should have known that the Bush Doctrine meant no longer waiting to be attacked before taking military action. Or defending the concept of a preemptive war. I knew that, she should have.”
Really? Are you SURE that’s what the Bush Doctrine is?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091203324.html
“Peter D. Feaver, who worked on the Bush national security strategy as a staff member on the National Security Council, said he has counted as many as seven distinct Bush doctrines. They include the president’s second-term “freedom agenda”; the notion that states that harbor terrorists should be treated no differently than terrorists themselves; the willingness to use a “coalition of the willing” if the United Nations does not address threats; and the one Gibson was talking about — the doctrine of preemptive war. “
Just because you were on the ball and guessed exactly which “Bush Doctrine” Gibson was alluding to, does not mean that all of us knew exactly which one he was seeking comment on.
By the way, Charles Krauthammer is credited with coining the phrase, “The Bush Doctrine,” on June 4, 2001.
If anything, Charles Krauthammer would know what he, himself, meant when he coined it, right?
Well, he had this to say about Gibson’s question to Sarah Palin:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202457.html
“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.”
“Yes, Sarah Palin didn’t know what it is. But neither does Charlie Gibson. And at least she didn’t pretend to know — while he looked down his nose and over his glasses with weary disdain, sighing and “sounding like an impatient teacher,” as the Times noted. In doing so, he captured perfectly the establishment snobbery and intellectual condescension that has characterized the chattering classes’ reaction to the mother of five who presumes to play on their stage.”
We are seeing the exact same condescension and snobbery from the LSM establishment that we witnessed in 2008. And, why not? It worked for them back then and got Obama elected, why not dust it off and use it again to help re-elect Obama.?
Obviously, it’s working—as evinced by many of the commentators on this thread.
Cheers
P.S. - Here’s REALLY what Krauthammer meant when he coined the term, “The Bush Doctrine”:
“I know something about the subject because, as the Wikipedia entry on the Bush doctrine notes, I was the first to use the term. In the cover essay of the June 4, 2001, issue of the Weekly Standard entitled, “The Bush Doctrine: ABM, Kyoto, and the New American Unilateralism,” I suggested that the Bush administration policies of unilaterally withdrawing from the ABM treaty and rejecting the Kyoto protocol, together with others, amounted to a radical change in foreign policy that should be called the Bush doctrine. “