The Bush Doctrine
August 12th, 2008 by Sarah
In a article at The American Interest Online, John Lewis Gaddis reviews the Bush Doctrine of “seeking and supporting the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.” To this end, Gaddis recommends “working with authoritarian regimes when there is more to fear than their authoritarianism when the trajectory is toward making democracy possible, even if it’s still a long way off. But it also requires resisting regimes—and terrorist movements—whose course lies in the opposite direction: toward making themselves the source of all fears, rather than the safeguard against them.”
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