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September 25, 2014
ISIS and George Kennan’s “Americanasaurus”
By John Cassidy
A briefing at the Pentagon on September 23, 2014.
Credit Photograph by Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty
In an interesting Syria post at Foreign Policy‘s Web
site, Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. peace negotiator, quotes George
Kennan, the progenitor of the policy of containment, on the tendency of
democracies to ignore external threats until, eventually, they
overreact. Having just raised the possibility that the Obama Administration’s decision to expand the war on ISIS may have been partly driven by public opinion, I think it’s worth reproducing Kennan’s quote in full:
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