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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Cogito who wrote (83804)9/12/2008 9:10:19 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 542009
 
"This policy was used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001[2] and has since been applied to American military action against Al Qaeda camps in Pakistan."

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My recollection was that the label was applied to the policy changes required for the initial reaction to 9/11 and that it was subsequently expanded. But I wouldn't put money on my recollection. It seems to me that what's important about the Bush Doctrine, in a nutshell, is that it was a change to our attitude toward the sovereignty of foreign states as a result of 9/11 "changing everything."
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