Who knew that The Financial Times could be so funny?:
This doctrine… recalls the classic episode of the TV comedy Seinfeld, “The Oppositeâ€, in which George Costanza temporarily improves his fortunes by rejecting all the principles according to which he has lived his life and doing the opposite of what his training indicates he should do…. The Iraq policy pursued by the Bush administration satisfies the Costanza criterion: it is the opposite of every foreign policy the world has ever met.
Secretly Ironic 