... toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." He correctly indicates that waging war is not always the most effective way to achieve goals, especially political goals because war does not change the way people think, if anything, it makes them less inclined to change because war brings nothing ... is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it if the light we use is but a paltry and narrow taper, most objects will cast a shadow wider than themselves." Kennan a...

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