Lisa Schiffren from NRO defends Palin's ignorance of the Bush Doctrine:
Andy and Yuval both explain well that the Bush Doctrine is a multi-faceted policy, not clearly defined, and only intermittently adhered to in any of its particulars. David Gergen — of all people — on CNN pointed out that the phrase is, for the most part, inside DC/foreign policy establishment jargon. It is not used widely in the media, even in more serious discussions of whichever aspect is under scrutiny. So a well read state-level political leader, who followed the Bush Administration foreign policy in, say, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the WSJ, or on ABC news (God help us), would not necessarily have a deep field of references. It was the clearest "gotcha" moment of the interview.
Well... after watching the interview, I asked my fiance (a highly intelligent grad student in clinical psychology, but by no means part of the DC Foreign Policy Establishment or even a state-level political leader) if she was familiar with the Bush Doctrine, and she said something along the lines of "Isn't that the policy that allows us to attack other countries if we think they might attack us."
This question was sprung on her while she was in the shower, as opposed to during an interview for which she'd been preparing for several days while being intensively coached in foreign policy by Joe Lieberman (who, come to think of it, might be considered part of the DC Foreign Policy Establishment).
Granted, this is all anecdotal, and maybe she's been reading back issues of Foreign Affairs while I'm sleeping or something... but I think it's more likely that knowledge of the Bush Doctrine is a standard piece of information among people who have been paying any sort of attention to American foreign policy over the past few years.
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