Containment is a word I always associated with something we did or thought of doing to other countries. . . George Kennan's containment policy after World War II aimed to thwart Soviet expansionism. Earlier this year, some non-Neocons argued for containing Iraq rather than invading the joint.
Now the tables are turned. Or as Pogo, that loveable Okefenokee swamp-dweller, would say: We have met the enemy--and he is us. In a May 5 op-ed in The Guardian, Simon Tisdall argues for multipolarity as the international community's best hope for containing US power. Yep, he actually used that C word!
In another reverse-word-association assault, the LA Times on May 2 has an op ed bearing this headline: Appetite for Authoritarianism Spawns an American Gulag. The author, Jonathan Turley, is a George Washington Law School prof. (And you thought gulag was just another name for Stalinist end-justifies-the-means repression!)
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