The Bush Doctrine
Abstract:
Ethics, the principles of conduct governing an individual or a profession. The president of the United States has an ethical obligation to the country to conduct himself with unquestionable moral integrity. As the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, President George W. Bush has changed the way our country conducts foreign policy with the release of the 2002 National Security Strategy. Does the establishment of policy legitimize or give ethical acceptance to an issue President Truman first established our policy of containment and deterrence during the start of the cold war, a policy that has served our nation well for over half a century. With the invasion of Iraq, our nation applied a policy of preemptive strike normative ethics would argue that preemptive war is unethical.