‘Is There an Obama Doctrine?’

That’s the question today in the “Room for Debate” section on NewYorkTimes.com.

As of the writing of this post, there are eight different answers.

This brings back memories of Charlie Gibson’s question to then candidate Sarah Palin, “What’s the Bush doctrine.” I bet if the Times had asked that same question the day before Gibson did, we’d see the same lack of unanimity that we see today. Palin, however, was labeled an idiot for her answer. Maybe Charlie Gibson can tell us which one of the eight writers who weighed in on the Obama doctrine is actually correct?