Editing Reagan Doctrine (section)

===Origin of the phrase===
In 1985, as U.S. support was flowing to the ''mujahideen'', Savimbi's UNITA, and the Nicaraguan Contras, columnist [[Charles Krauthammer]], in an essay for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine, labeled the policy the "Reagan Doctrine," and the name stuck.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Krauthammer |first=Charles |author-link=Charles Krauthammer |date=1 April 1985 |title=The Reagan Doctrine |url=https://time.com/archive/6709711/essay-the-reagan-doctrine/ |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=26 August 2024}}</ref>

Krauthammer has said of his writing in support of the Reagan Doctrine,

{{quote|I basically came to the conclusion ... the Soviets had overextended their empire, and they were getting what the West had gotten with its overextended empire decades before a reaction, they got a rebellion, they got resistance. And the Soviets were now beginning to feel it, and the genius of Reagan, although I don't think they had a plan in doing this is he instinctively realized that one of the ways to go after the Soviets was indirect, and that is you go after their proxies, you go after their allies, you go after their clients, or even in Afghanistan you go after them directly. So that's what I called the Reagan Doctrine, it was sort of the opposite of the [[Brezhnev Doctrine]], which was whatever we control we keep. And Reagan was saying, no you don't.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/charles-krauthammer/ |title=Charles Krauthammer: Reflections on a Distinguished Career |access-date=2016-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324153201/http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/charles-krauthammer/ |archive-date=2016-03-24 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}