Pentagon Rethinking Old Doctrine on 2 Wars
14th April 2009
And about time, too. The old doctrine was based on an assumption of a clear and rational foreign policy, and in a world where “Democrat administratoin” => “dithering punctuated by spasms of overreactive violence”, such an assumption is manifestly false. We need to return to the principle expressed by James Madison that we are the friends of liberty everywhere but the guardians only of our own.