Posted on 09/02/2004 4:23:59 PM PDT by Califelephant
Enter the Bush Doctrine
The four pillars of the president's strategy for winning World War IV.
BY NORMAN PODHORETZ
Thursday, September 2, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT
In "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" (1947), the theoretical defense he constructed of the strategy President Truman adopted for fighting the war ahead, George F. Kennan (then the director of the State Department's policy planning staff, and writing under the pseudonym "X") described that strategy as "a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies . . . by the adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points."
In other words (though Mr. Kennan himself did not use those words), we were faced with the prospect of nothing less than another world war; and (though in later years, against the plain sense of the words that he himself did use, he tried to claim that the "counterforce" he had in mind was not military) it would not be an entirely "cold" one, either. Before it was over, more than 100,000 Americans would die on the far-off battlefields of Korea and Vietnam, and the blood of many others allied with us in the political and ideological struggle against the Soviet Union would be spilled on those same battlefields, and in many other places as well.
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Bookmarked to read later. I wonder if this hooks in to the "Four Pillars Speech" Mr. Bush gave in England a few years back. I will read the full article and will post a link to the other speech here if it applies. At the time some people said it was the most important speech of the last 50 years.
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