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<blockquote data-quote="CitationX_N7V11C" data-source="post: 2168441" data-attributes="member: 767185">I constantly check Department of Defense websites and I had never heard of a &quot;Bush Doctrine&quot; before the Katie Couric interview. Although the paper &quot;National Security Strategy of the United States&quot; was published on September 17, 2002 (which was the first official use of the phrase) you must ask yourself one question. Do you really expect a governor of Alaska to have read a defense report of this manner? Have any other governors done so? Political pundits may at times have mentioned the phrase but it was by no means a &quot;mainstream&quot; term. The interview may not have been her best but I will not demean someone for not knowing a term which is outside their experience. For example, I am a pilot. How would you fell if I constantly mocked you for not knowing basic Category II ILS minimums? Or for not knowing what an empennage is? Governors do not deal with foreign policy enough to be expected to know everything about the defense policy of the nation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CitationX_N7V11C, post: 2168441, member: 767185"] I constantly check Department of Defense websites and I had never heard of a "Bush Doctrine" before the Katie Couric interview. Although the paper "National Security Strategy of the United States" was published on September 17, 2002 (which was the first official use of the phrase) you must ask yourself one question. Do you really expect a governor of Alaska to have read a defense report of this manner? Have any other governors done so? Political pundits may at times have mentioned the phrase but it was by no means a "mainstream" term. The interview may not have been her best but I will not demean someone for not knowing a term which is outside their experience. For example, I am a pilot. How would you fell if I constantly mocked you for not knowing basic Category II ILS minimums? Or for not knowing what an empennage is? Governors do not deal with foreign policy enough to be expected to know everything about the defense policy of the nation. [/QUOTE]

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