Astrology Explored

September 13, 2008

The philosophy of pre-emption, the “Bush Doctrine,” emerged Sept. 17, 2002, when the White House issued its national security strategy document, saying: “America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones. We are menaced less by fleets and armies than by catastrophic technologies in the hands of the embittered few.” The strategy called for such priorities as “defending the United States, the American people, and our interests at home and abroad by identifying and destroying the threat before it reaches our borders.”

ABC News’ Teddy Davis and Rigel Anderson Report: Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin supports using U.S. military force when a strike is “imminent” against the American people but in an interview with ABC News she stopped short of saying whether she supports “anticipatory self-defense,” leaving open the question of whether she subscribes to the Bush Doctrine.

Anyone who remembers their American History class remembers running briefly into the bit about the The Monroe Doctrine, a defining moment in American foreign policy.

The Monroe Doctrine is a U.S. doctrine which, on December 2, 1823, stated that European powers were no longer to colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent nations of the Americas. The United States planned to stay neutral in wars between European powers and their colonies. However, if later on these types of wars were to occur in the Americas, the United States would view such action as hostile. President James Monroe first stated the doctrine during his seventh annual State of the Union Address to Congress, a defining moment in the foreign policy of the United States. Most recently, during the Cold War, the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (added during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt) was invoked as a reason to intervene militarily in Latin America to stop the spread of Communism.

Up to that point our foreign policy was engaged by defending and defining the borders of our newly minted country. From 1798 to the end of The War in 1812, in 1815, we fought a number of small wars with France and England to protect our interests as a country. In 1803, we purchased the land from France that made up the Louisiana Purchase diminishing French power in the New World. In 1819 we won a hard fought diplomatic battle to purchase Florida and settle a border dispute with Spain, which diminished Spanish interests in the Adams-Onis Treaty. Tensions with Spain ran high after the treaty, and even though we forged strong diplomatic connections with France and England, the big three world powers, France, England and Spain were still looking to expand economic opportunities in Central and South America.

In 1823, France invited Spain to restore the House of Bourbons to power, and there was talk of France and Spain warring upon the new republics with the backing of the Holy Alliance (Russia, Prussia and Austria). This news appalled the British government – all the work of James Wolfe, William Pitt and other eighteenth-century British statesmen to expel France from the New World would be undone, while markets in the former Spanish colonies that had recently become open to British trade might be closed off if Spain regained control.

Under these pressures The United States felt compelled to tell the European powers that we were the new sheriff in town and the Monroe Doctrine and a new United States foreign policy was born. This was the first time we said we had a right to interfere with the events in a another country if we viewed what was happening to that country as a threat to our interests.

Fast forward to 2001. the 9/11 attacks and Bush’s view that Saddam Hussein was a threat the United States. We had invaded one country, Afghanistan and Bush mightily desired to invade Iraq. But the UN would not back us. The Bush government, with their daily announcement of terror levels, the passing of the Patriot Act, and its insistence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was gearing for a war with Iraq. The “Bush Doctrine” proposed in an atmosphere of fear for the safety of the United States was a just one more piece in Bush’s plan to invade Iraq. It is currently a focal piece of our foreign policy.

You can decide for yourself if Sarah Palin should have cribbed a little more studiously for her interview with Gibson. But the question remains, does Palin, in her heart of hearts subscribe to our current foreign policy? What can astrology tell us?

Taking the stated date of September 17, 2002 and matching it with Sarah Palin’s birthday we come up with the chart below.

Just at first glance we can see that once Palin examines the “Bush Doctrine” she is entirely comfortable with it and would have no problems acting on it. The event chart has three placements in Aquarius, two of them nestled between her Mercury and her Sun. Given that the event chart’s Uranus sits on her Saturn and opposes her Pluto, she would feel the need to use deadly force when faced with a threat to American interests. It is up to you to decide with your vote if that is in America’s best interests.

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