The Bush Doctrine, U.S. History and Preemptive Strikes ::Liberally Conservative

John Lewis Gaddis writes in Surprise, Security and the American Experience, “For the United States, safety comes from enlarging, rather than contracting, its sphere of responsibilities.”

“Mr. Gaddis not only reminds us that American leaders acted upon this idea after every surprise attack, but that the three primary elements of the Bush doctrine — preemption, unilateralism and American hegemony — were to varying extents the same recourses earlier leaders turned to in times of crisis,” wrote Brendan Conway in 2004.

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