Every self-respecting president has to have a doctrine.
Obama doesn't have a doctrine, let alone a policy.
If Mr Bush had a doctrine it was his belief in pre-emptive war, enunciated in the National Security Strategy of 2002 and enacted in Iraq the next year.
It seems to me sensible to shed one's clothes according to the solar circumstance; but the devotees must have a doctrine and a cult.
"They do not have a doctrine to support a plan of governance," said Gastón Acurio, 75, a former senator and member of Popular Action since 1956, when it was founded.
"They have a doctrine, as expressed by President Bush in his second inaugural — 'we're going to rid the world of tyranny,' " Mrs. Clinton said in the June interview, referring to the Republican leadership.
"In peacekeeping, we have a doctrine that you sometimes have to show force in order not to use force," he said, "that you arrive in such a robust, credible manner that the other side may do what you wish to see done, without having to fight".
Most discussions of precedent focus on the justifications for having a doctrine of stare decisis by which later courts are bound to follow earlier decisions.
In contrast to these wild and woolly Athenian doctrines and practices, Praechter saw the Alexandrian school, in whose commentaries such doctrines do not figure prominently, as more restrained, rational, respectable; they were sober interpreters of Aristotle and had a doctrine much more easily reconcilable with the strong Christian cult of Alexandria.
