Wheels fall off US war doctrine - FeaturesWorld - www.theage.com.au

"A few weeks before the war against Iraq began, US Vice-President Dick Cheney paid a visit to the home of the French ambassador in Washington. Despite weeks of intense diplomatic pressure, France, along with more than half the Security Council, was refusing to bow to America's demands to support a second UN resolution authorising the war.

Cheney confronted ambassador Jean-David Levitte with a simple question. 'Is France an ally or a foe?' The ambassador insisted France was an ally. Cheney disagreed. 'We have many reasons,' he said, 'to conclude that you are not really a friend or an ally.'
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Once viewed as a hawk among the Democrats, when he worked in Jimmy Carter's White House, Brzezinski has become a vocal critic of the Bush doctrine. The first person to use the phrase, "If you're not with us, you're against us", he says, was the Bolshevik revolutionary, Lenin. He calls it "an absolutely paranoid perspective on the world".

The way that the newspapers are treating Bush these days, he should have every right to feel paranoid. Gone are the days of the Teflon W.