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===Radical departure=== According to Buchanan and others, the Bush Doctrine was a radical departure from former United States foreign policies, and a continuation of the ideological roots of neoconservatism.<ref name="change"/><ref name="neocomeback">{{cite journal |url=http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.25086/pub_detail.asp |title=Operation Comeback |first=Joshua |last=Muravchik |author-link=Joshua Muravchik |journal=[[Foreign Policy]] |date=November–December 2006 |format=Republished by the [[American Enterprise Institute]] (AEI) |access-date=2008-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911234347/http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.25086/pub_detail.asp |archive-date=2008-09-11 }}</ref><ref name="meyerwpj">{{cite journal |title=America Unlimited: The Radical Sources of the Bush Doctrine |url=http://www.worldpolicy.newschool.edu/wpi/journal/articles/wpj04-1/meyer.htm |first=Karl |last=Meyer |author-link=Karl E. Meyer |publisher=World Policy Institute |journal=[[World Policy Journal]] |date=Spring 2004 |volume=XXI |issue=1 |access-date=2013-07-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904091600/http://www.worldpolicy.newschool.edu/wpi/journal/articles/wpj04-1/meyer.htm |archive-date=2015-09-04 }}</ref><ref name="pat">{{cite book |title=Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency |first=Pat |last=Buchanan |author-link=Patrick J. Buchanan |publisher=[[Thomas Dunne Books]] |isbn=978-0-312-34115-2 |date=August 12, 2004 |oclc=231989002 |url=https://archive.org/details/whererightwentwr00buch }}</ref><ref name="kesler"/><ref name="doctasia">{{cite book |title=Confronting the Bush Doctrine: Critical Views from the Asia-Pacific |publisher=[[Routledge]] |first=Melvin |last=Gurtov |author2=Peter Van Ness|year=2005 |isbn=0-415-35533-8 |oclc=238751530}}</ref> Initially, support for the U.S. was high,<ref name="doctasia"/> but by the end of the Bush administration, after seven years of war, anti-Americanism was high and criticism of the Bush Doctrine was widespread;<ref name="doctasia"/><ref name="doctrine2008"/> nonetheless the doctrine still had support among some American political leaders.<ref name="doctrine2008">{{cite journal |url=http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/jan/14/00006/ |title=Declaring Forever War, Giuliani has surrounded himself with advisers who think the Bush Doctrine didn't go nearly far enough |journal=[[The American Conservative]] |first=Michael C. |last=Desch |date=January 14, 2008 |access-date=2008-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025090807/http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/jan/14/00006/ |archive-date=October 25, 2008 }}</ref> The representation of prominent neoconservatives and their influences on the Bush Doctrine had been highly controversial among the American public.<ref name="notdead"/><ref name="neoconverg">{{cite news |title=The Neoconservative Convergence |url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110006921 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |first=Charles |last=Krauthammer |author-link=Charles Krauthammer |date=July 21, 2005|access-date=2008-09-19}}</ref><ref name="doctrine2008"/><ref name="neogroove">{{cite news |title=Can the Neocons Get Their Groove Back? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/17/AR2006111701474_pf.html |first=Joshua |last=Muravchik |author-link=Joshua Muravchik |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=November 19, 2006|access-date=2008-09-16}}</ref> Critics, like [[John Micklethwait]] in the book ''[[The Right Nation]]'', claim that Bush was deceived by neoconservatives into adopting their policies.<ref name="neoconverg"/><ref name="notstupid">{{cite book |title=You're Not Stupid! Get the Truth |publisher= Progressive Press|first=William John |last=Cox |date=June 2004 |isbn=978-0-930852-32-0 |location=Joshua Tree, CA |oclc=238122634}}</ref><ref name="rightnation">{{cite book |title=The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America |publisher=[[Penguin Press]] |first=John |last=Micklethwait |date=May 24, 2004 |isbn=1-59420-020-3 |oclc=186427485 |url=https://archive.org/details/rightnationconse00mick }}</ref>
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