Applying the Obama Doctrine The President gives us words to live by. Appearing on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, and straining mightily beneath the weight of all the water she was carrying for the Obama Administration, Andrea Mitchell of NBC offered this definition of the “emerging” Obama Doctrine: “When you have a catastrophe you can avert, and the benefits outweigh the costs, and you have international or multilateral support, go for it. You cannot stand idly by.” She’s trying to explain Obama’s policy on Libya, but why don’t we test the soundness of the Obama Doctrine by applying it to...