the president told host George Stephanopoulos, "I don't think they're gaining strength.
What is true is that from the start, our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them."
Obama wants to "contain" the muslim savages.
That's like planning to contain plutonium in a Tupperware container.
Bad analogy, plutonium is an alpha emitter and a Tupperware container would stop alpha particles quite nicely. As a matter of fact you could wrap plutonium in newspaper and a single sheet of paper would do an effective job of shielding the stuff.
Your skin will also stop alpha particles, if however, you were machining a 'pit' for a nuclear bomb and inhaled a bit of plutonium dust you would soon die of cancer as a source of alpha particles is now inside you and destroying tissue.
Regards,
GtG