President Obama, in his Nobel Peace Prize speech, enunciated what is already being termed the “Obama Doctrine.”
Obama stated that the US must adhere to a higher standard of conduct, including the ban on torture, and the closing of Guantanamo as a prison base for terrorists.
The nations of the world must engage in tough diplomacy against nations that create instability in the world, such as North Korea and Iran, and must do so in a sense of unity.
The nations of the world must also work to engage with rogue nations and bring them back into the diplomatic community.
Any nation denying economic justice or human rights must be opposed because it undermines the world and leads to war.
War sometimes is unavoidable and just, as for instance World War II against Adolf Hitler, and Al Qaeda since 2001.
The principles of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. are to be pursued when possible, but evil exists in the world and must be confronted.
The Obama Doctrine can be considered Realism in the world that we face today, and many on all sides of the political spectrum can join together in praising it as practical and statesmanlike!
Here’s a very different interpretation of the Obama Doctrine by Rick Rozoff at Global Research:
The “Obama Doctrine”: Eternal War For Imperfect Mankind (“For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world.”)
URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ROZ20091211&articleId=16503