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Bush Doctrine

Is it possible to get the Bush doctrine article opening line fixed? "The Bush Doctrine is a term used to describe the foreign policy doctrine of United States president George W. Bush, enunciated in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks."

This opening sentence is problematic

1) Because it attempts to explain this particular doctrine(s) by saying it's a doctrine. I suggest using the words "position or policy" since these synonyms can help readers who might now know what a doctrine is to better understand the term. It's fairly basic not to explain a term by repeating the term itself. It's redundant.

2) According to the definition I find for doctrine, it is a single principle, policy or position. So I don't see how there is a "Bush Doctrine" let alone a single foreign policy doctrine for the USA. It should really read Bush Doctrines, and I believe that's at the core of the confusion. I defy anyone to substantiate an argument that there is a single doctrine dealing with Bush's foregin policy approaches and methodology. But I guess rectifying this confusion by making the article title plural is way above my paygrade. At the very least the opening line should be corrected to say the Bush Doctrine refers to US Foregin policy DOCTRINES not doctrine.

I suggest revising the opening line to: The Bush Doctrine is a term used to describe the foreign policy positions and approaches of United States during the George W. Bush presidential administration.

Then perhaps something along the lines of: These positions have been enunciated in various speeches and papers and have been analysed extensively in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq.

I included similar information on the Bush Doctrine discussion page. (Wallamoose (talk) 19:01, 15 September 2008 (UTC))

The Bush Doctrine is a doctrine that reflects a collection of decisions and strategies from the foundation of a belief system such as an ideology. It is therefore NOT correct to state it as a principle. Furthermore, there were revisions to the Bush Doctrine, and the September 11, 2001 attacks were part of forming these decisions and strategies - in practical political terms. A doctrine is something stronger than a mere policy, a single position or a principle. Therefore I disagree on your interpretation, but I think that merely or singularly attributing the attacks is not representative of the actual Bush Doctrine. Therefore I agree it can be improved. We can discuss this further on Talk:Bush Doctrine. Open a section, or discuss it further, on the Talk page and I will support a change. Thanks. Scierguy (talk) 19:11, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

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September 2008

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