June 2, 2003
The American Conservative

America's Brezhnev Doctrine

by Pat Buchanan

In May '68, Moscow sent its tanks into Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" and gave us "The Brezhnev Doctrine of Limited Sovereignty." To wit, once the Communist system has been imposed on a nation, said Moscow, there is no turning back.

A mirror image of the Brezhnev Doctrine is the American Doctrine. Once a nation has been "liberated," like Germany and Japan, a U.S.-style democracy will be imposed.

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