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A moose in the headlights
The Reality-Based Community —
... More from our heartbeat-away department: * Sarah Palin doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is , but she's for it anyway. When she explains what she's for, it turns out to be the opposite of the Bush Doctrine: pre-emptive war (striking to forestall an imminent attack) not preventive war (striking a regime that might be mean to us at some undetermined future moment. * ...
Palin Blanks on Bush Doctrine, Sexism to Blame
Firedoglake —
... If those DC shock jocks hadn't held out on the nice governor, she would have known the difference between the right to preemptively respond to an imminent attack and the right to anticipatory self-defense against any country that might be plotting terrorism or harboring terrorists. ...
Friday McBush/McSame Bashing
Discourse.net —
... David Stephenson on homeland security, Can we afford to have such an unprepared person as Veep?
HuffPo, Palin’s ABC Interview: Stumped On Bush Doctrine, Seems To Contradict McCain On Pakistan
TPM, Painful & Sarah Palin On Bush Doctrine: Homina, Homina, Homina
ThinkProgress, Palin Stumped On The Bush Doctine, Believes It Is The President’s ‘Worldview’
Political Animal, Palin And The Bush Doctrine
OliverWillis, Sarah Palin Fails The Bush Doctrine ...
Palin fumbles and stumbles in her ABC interview
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... There are more than a few angles to consider, so let's just take this one at a time. As Hilzoy noted last night, and as the video to the right shows, Palin doesn't have the foggiest idea what the Bush Doctrine is. Literally, not a clue about the guiding U.S. foreign policy principle of the last seven years. When she tried to fudge it, her ignorance on the issue was even more glaring. ...
Palin fumbles and stumbles in her ABC interview
The Hollywood Liberal —
... : There are more than a few angles to consider, so let’s just take this one at a time. As Hilzoy noted last night , and as the video to the right shows, Palin doesn’t have the foggiest idea what the Bush Doctrine is. Literally, not a clue about the guiding U.S. foreign policy principle of the last seven years. When she tried to fudge it, her ignorance on the issue was even more glaring. Second, she really didn’t want to answer an important question about U.S. strikes in Pakistan. It’s not like this was a curveball — the issue was in yesterday’s New York Times. Eventually, ...
Digest for September 12th through September 15th
The Republic of T. —
... The Washington Monthly - The big deal about the Bush Doctrine was that it changed our position radically. We used to affirm, along with all other countries, a right of what has normally been thought of as preemptive war: the right to respond to an imminent attack against us, when we have credible evidence that it is imminent. When a country is obviously on the verge of mounting an invasion or a strike against us — when its troops are rolling towards the border, or its missiles counting down — we have never thought that we had to wait for that country to actually ...
Digest for September 12th through September 15th
The Republic of T. —
... The Washington Monthly - The big deal about the Bush Doctrine was that it changed our position radically. We used to affirm, along with all other countries, a right of what has normally been thought of as preemptive war: the right to respond to an imminent attack against us, when we have credible evidence that it is imminent. When a country is obviously on the verge of mounting an invasion or a strike against us — when its troops are rolling towards the border, or its missiles counting down — we have never thought that we had to wait for that country to actually ...
