Latin America Between Kennan and Obama

Former US diplomat George F. Kennan famously said that democracy fights in anger.

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One of Kennan s great insights was that the US is well served by conflict among America s adversaries. He welcomed Tito s rise in Yugoslavia as an internal challenge to Moscow s hegemony that he hoped others would emulate.

One of Kennan s great insights was that the US is well served by conflict among America s adversaries.

Just as Kennan s X article was fully reflective of the mood in America at the time, so the Narrative expresses the current American Zeitgeist.

Kennan was right the dysfunctional features of Soviet system, and its over extension internationally, would lead to its demise.

He welcomed Tito s rise in Yugoslavia as an internal challenge to Moscow s hegemony that he hoped others would emulate.

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In this sense, next year s US presidential election may prove to be a watershed.

In 1947, in a landmark article, The Sources of Soviet Conduct, which he signed as X, George Kennan defined America s foreign policy strategy for the Cold War as one of containment and deterrence.

Kennan maintained that the US should work to create a world that no one can dominate, and that the best way to spread democracy is to demonstrate its superiority.

Radio Free Europe was a product of some of the most prominent architects of America's early Cold War strategy, especially those who believed that the Cold War would eventually be fought by political rather than military means, such as George F. Kennan.

George Kennan, one of the greatest American diplomats of the post war years, once wrote that the Western world was committing its biggest mistake in 50 years time by expanding NATO after Soviet communism collapsed.

BEIJING Six decades ago, the American diplomat George Kennan wrote an article, The Sources of SovietConduct, that galvanized American and world opinion, which soon hardened into the rigid postures of the Cold War.

It is difficult to imagine a more marked departure from Kennan s concepts than a report recently released by the Pentagon A National Strategic Narrative authored by two active duty military officers who signed as Y.

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And, in fact, it was Kennan who first drew my attention to this similarity, when in a private conversation about 9 11, he noted that, for many Muslims, Russia and the West were becoming indistinguishable. Both were viewed as secular states antagonistic to Islam.

As Kennan explained, when America goes to war over something less than a vital interest, the adversary for whom vital interests are at stake will fight long after the war has become too unpopular at home to sustain.

Just as Kennan s X article was fully reflective of the mood in America at the time, so the Narrative expresses the current American Zeitgeist. Thus, the idea that Y might turn out to be a latter day X defining the nature of America s international role in the twenty first century may not be far fetched.