Talk:Foreign policy doctrine

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I'm still curious: is there anything that truly unites these "doctrines" into a coherent whole? For common properties we seem to have:

• They're statements by Presidents of significant world powers.
• They're about foreign policy.

Of course, there are also many Presidential statements that meet the above requirements but never come to be labelled doctrines, so the above doesn't serve very well for a "definition" of the word.

Not that all words have exceptionless definitions; I'm all for Ludwig Wittgenstein and his "family resemblances". Nonetheless, it looks to me, an untrained observer, as if the different things we call so-and-so's doctrine have been lumped together in a pretty ad hoc manner. Does this seem to be the case for anyone else? --Ryguasu

[edit] McCain Doctrine

Is it not rather pro-Republican to list the doctrine of a Presidential candidate? I'm sure Obama and Hilary have their own 'doctrine', but like McCain, these are not yet established enough to warrant a page. I would suggest that this blank link is removed from the list. --Woodgreener (talk) 19:40, 8 May 2008 (UTC)