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Quote by: Sonart . A red herring. Because it was never written or stated directly as 'The Bush Doctrine' doesn't mean it doesn't exist, or that it isn't commonly understood. 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]

Charles Krauthammer originally coined the phrase "The Bush Doctrine. " Like Henry Kissinger he had something to say about the Charlie Gibson moment:

Charles Krauthammer - Charlie Gibson's Gaffe - washingtonpost.com

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.
He asked Palin, “Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?”
She responded, quite sensibly to a question that is ambiguous, “In what respect, Charlie?”

Now Mr. Sonart if you actually go back and read the wiki entry you yourself posted you will see that Krauthammer is right. The Bush Doctrine ( what others said it was, certainly nothing George Bush ever said it was) morphed 4 times over the years into expanded meanings the wiki piece includes. So unfortunately for the Palin hounders, her response to the question, "In what respect, Charlie?" is actually the proper thing to ask about this nebulous thing called "The Bush Doctrine"