As editor of The Times, I don't take stands for or against wars, old ones in Iraq or new ones in Libya, lest my opinions be mistaken for the guiding doctrine of our news coverage.
As for the United Nations – that organisation which, in the wake of their Rwandan failure, adopted the Responsibility To Protect as their guiding doctrine – well, once again, its responsibility has once again been sacrificed on the altar of the slowly grinding wheels of bureaucracy.
In a racket like this, the guiding doctrine must be: The more realistic, the better, right?
Their guiding doctrine comes from a verse in the New Testament.
If you're wondering where this view came from, it's known as the guiding doctrine of the Church of the Sacred Fed.
NATO's new guiding doctrine, Strategic Concept 2010, already seems defunct given the violations of the document's position that terrorism is a high priority because it "poses a direct threat to the security of the citizens of NATO countries, and to international stability and prosperity more broadly".
In the late 19th century the acute changes caused by industrial growth and the adoption of mass-production techniques proved the laissez-faire doctrine insufficient as a guiding philosophy.
Most of his predecessors have had their own ideologies enshrined as guiding state doctrines.
Where the guiding political doctrine was Socialist or, after 1917, Communist, the objective was to gain control over the state in order to use its growing interventionist capacities for fundamental social transformation in the interest of workers.
What exists in Tumbang Saan is a strange compromise, born of the Indonesian religious system, where government functionaries play a key role in allocating funding and guiding religious doctrine.
