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Bush Doctrine

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Bush Doctrine
A neoconservative foreign policy idea in the United States. It is most commonly associated with efforts to prevent future terrorist attacks on the United States through the invasion of foreign countries thought to be safe havens for terrorist groups. It is also used to express regime change, or the attempt to replace a dictatorship with a fledgling democracy. More generally, the term describes American unilateralism.


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Bush and the emergence of the "post-rhetorical" presidency, presidential signing statements and the imperial presidency, Bush's legacy on social security, Bush's use of the tools of executive federalism, Bush's foreign policy as evangelical realism and not neo-conservatism, the philosophy of Bush's "Freedom Agenda," American foreign policy in the Persian Gulf, and overcoming the Bush Doctrine of the virtues of American primacy and the country's right to wage preemptive war.
She said her agency was focused on what she called a Òfirst-order issueÓ — preparation — and drew a clear distinction between the Bush doctrine of fear and the Obama administrationÕs view.
He publicly wished death on Paul Wolfowitz, before aligning himself with the Americans and praising the Bush doctrine to the skies.
 
 
 
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