Should-Read: Not just in hindsight! The point of my citing to George Kennan’s 1946 “Long Telegram”—published in 1947 in Foreign Affairs as “The Sources of Soviet Conduct”—was to stress that what you, Pseudoerasmus, whoever you are, call the retrospective assessment was Kennan’s prospective hope as well. Kennan wanted containment, not rollback. Kennan wanted to move … Continue reading Should-Read: Pseudoreasmus: The Cold War Triumph of Liberal Capitalism—in Hindsight