Sooooooo…I guess there is no such thing as the “Truman Doctrine” because “officially” it was called the “Recommendation for assistance to Greece and Turkey.” I assure you, the Bush Doctrine is real. American men and women have died enforcing it. You are right, Reagan did call the Soviet Union “the evil empire” and declared that Communism was headed for the ash heap of history, but, like the tough union leader that he once was, after he took his stand and made his case, he was ready to sit down and talk. He was tough but not bellicose. ***Would Reagan have declared a policy of preventive war to keep any rival from rising to where it might challenge us? Would he have thrown over the Cold War doctrines of deterrence and containment (you don’t deny these “doctrines” do you?) as irrelevant to our time? Would he have called for world democratic revolution (like the one we are seeing come to “fruition” under Obama) to change regimes that did not threaten or attack us? How could Bush say that we are not secure if the Islamic world is not democratic? ***The Islamic world has never been democratic the few times it has been “democratic” we got “bad guys” like Nasser, Khadafi, Assad, Sadaam, and the Baath Party. Every president since FDR got along fine with the “bad guys” so long as it made us safe. And one more thing about your reference to the “evil empire.” We preach democracy and human rights, yet prop up dictators and oligarchs who oppress Islamic peoples and squander their wealth. In other words, we meddle in their affairs. And then you have America’s neopagan culture - alchohol, drugs, abortions, pornography - all a satanic lure that corrupts the morals of Islamic children. You see, to millions of muslims, we are the “evil empire.”