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Jonah Goldberg, Ledeen's colleague at National Review, coined the term " Ledeen Doctrine " in a 2002 column.

This tongue-in-cheek " doctrine " is usually summarized as " Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business ," which Goldberg remembered Ledeen saying in an early 1990s speech.