Your December article on the Carter Doctrine perhaps shows only a part of a policy of someone who I think is one of the most decent human beings to have held high public office in decades ("The Carter Doctrine Goes Global" by Michael T.

doctrines and strategies which expressed a resolve to contain that challenge included the Truman Doctrine (1948), the Eisenhower Doctrine (1957), Kennedy's flexible response, the corollaries of limited nuclear war, counterinsurgency, the Johnson Doctrine (1865), the Nixon-Kissinger Doctrine (1969), and finally the Carter Doctrine (1980) and Reagan's codicil (1981).

Today, the Carter Doctrine stretches far beyond the Persian Gulf.