The Bush Doctrine

Here is an excerpt from Pushing Back Entropy (p. 113) that is fitting for 9/11:

Shortly after the events of September 11, 2001, then president George W. Bush began to articulate what has been dubbed the Bush Doctrine. Since that time, the concept has been broadened to include any number of foreign policy concepts including the right to preemptive strikes at the whim of the American leader. The concept has fallen victim to the unpopularity of the former president connected to it. However, the basic idea that President Bush originally articulated is worthy of remembrance. Whatever your political stance, whether a lover or hater of Bush, you may be able to see some validity in the core idea in the doctrine as it was originally stated.President Bush, in the aftermath of the worst tragedy on American soil since Pearl Harbor, articulated his belief that the nations that had harbored and given sanctuary to the terrorists who plotted and carried out the atrocities of 9-11, should and would be held liable for the actions of those they had given harbored. It wasn’t just the terrorists, but those who had supported them, who had allowed them to do what they did, that he considered liable. He famously informed the American public that we would hold the terrorists and those who had supported them accountable for our national pain.Many organizations, by doing nothing, allow internal “terrorists” of another sort to survive and threaten the overall health and well-being of employees within their organization. These do-nothing companies are like the nations threatened by the Bush Doctrine. By providing unhealthy sanctuary, they allow bullies at all levels to continue and thereby contribute to the creation of an unsafe work environment for everyone in their path.