After the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Brezhnev doctrine of limited sovereignty was formulated proclaiming the right of the Soviet Union to invade satellite states in order to support pro-Moscow “socialist” regimes. Now a new Bush-Brezhnev doctrine of limited sovereignty may become the basis of international law. The United States now claims a sovereign right to invade any other country to change a nasty regime, if the president and Congress agree to it. The U.N., France, Russia and other “veto holders” can go and get stuffed if they do not like this new emerging world order.

—— Pavel Felgenhauer, The Moscow Times

The point for real American conservatives to remember is that, in some sense, it doesn’t matter whether this is really what we intend; it is still how others are seeing us.

The point for neocons to remember is that it didn’t work for the USSR, and sooner or later it’s bound to stop working for us, too. Terrorism is as effective a way to force your enemy into breaking the bank as Star Wars ever was, and it’s much cheaper.