If I were in any public foreign policy debate today, and my adversary were to raise the Bush doctrine, both I and the audience would assume — unless my interlocutor annotated the reference ...

President Bush is advocating a new strategic doctrine emphasizing preemptive strikes against our enemies. What does this change mean for America and for the world? To find out “Think Tank” is ...

But it did not discredit preemption. Gerson cites the 2002 West Point speech as the core of the Bush Doctrine. The speech was part of the year-long effort to justify the forthcoming invasion of Iraq.