Domestic and International commentary on the Bush Doctrine (National Security Strategy):
- Jamaica Gleaner: The dangerous Bush Doctrine
- The Guardian with several essays:
- Iraq and the Bush doctrine – March 24, 2002
- The Bush doctrine makes nonsense of the UN charter – June 7, 2002
- Now for the Bush Doctrine – September 22, 2002
- New Yorker: A Doctrine Passes
- Seven Principles of Neo-Imperialism – summary exceprted from from the September/October 2002 issue of Foreign Affairs (the house journal of the Council on Foreign Relations), from an article by G. John Ikenberry entitled “America’s Imperial Ambition.”
- The War On Terror: The Bush Doctrine –
- Cato Instititute: Bush Doctrine Rings Hollow
Underlying Kennan’s caution, apparently, is the lesson he learned firsthand in 1946, the year that containment was born. This was, as he put it, “the recognition that wherever, in this modern age, one has to choose between war and no war, such is the fearfulness of modern armaments that one should give every conceivable preference to the possibilities and arguments for peace before resorting to the sword.”
The Bush speech is nothing less than the founding document of a new international order with American power at its center and the spread of freedom as its aim. Put it this way: You have heard of the Monroe Doctrine, no? Manifest Destiny? The West Point speech, with its liberty doctrine, will be remembered for laying out something no less consequential than those.