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Jonah Goldberg is a conservative commentator, author, and founding editor of The Dispatch. He is the editor-at-large of National Review Online and a former editor of National Review. He is known for coining the 'Ledeen Doctrine' in a 2002 column.
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Jonah Goldberg coined the term 'Ledeen Doctrine' in a National Review column on April 23, 2002, attributing to Ledeen the statement: '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.' Goldberg said he recalled Ledeen phrasing it at an AEI speech about a decade earlier and called it 'the bedrock tenet of the Ledeen Doctrine in more or less his own words.' He noted Ledeen 'may have only been semi-serious when he crafted it.' The quote has been widely attributed to Ledeen ever since.
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NRO Terminates Coulter's Column
After September 11 piece editing disagreement
9/1/2001