The Obama Doctrine: Freedom for Whom?

As our nation considers what President Obama now admits as “the real and growing threat” of terrorism, the question must be asked: What is the “Obama Doctrine?”  A close examination of the thinking behind the Obama Doctrine reveals that we are engaged in a very real and dangerous version of the conflict waged inside the minds of those who insist that Islam is compatible with freedom.  This doctrine dictates a war that is not only conceptually lost out the outset, but one that will produce actual loss, threatening lives even within our nation’s borders. Back in 2008, Sarah Palin supposedly “stumbled” when Gibson asked whether she agreed with the “Bush Doctrine.”  Gibson, with the sigh of an “impatient schoolteacher,” informed her that the doctrine was one of “anticipatory self-defense.”  Charles Krauthammer, however, patiently corrected Gibson in his column explaining that the Bush...(Read Full Article)