afghanistan. they ve done what could be done, successfully degrading al qaeda and killing osama bin laden. cert essentially afghanistan is not america s peril. by contrast the most brilliant american strategist of the cold war, george kennon, always said that the cold war depended on a small number of power centers. he argued in the late 1940s, there were just five: the united states, the united kingdom, the west german region, japan and the soviet union. as long as washington could maintain the 4-1 ratio against moscow, it would win the cold war. kennon urged a steely-eyed focus on those centers of power. we must decide which areas are
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author jon meacham. jon, should history have to be signed, and you know this is coming. tell us about the newspaper scandal of 1947, the article by mr. x. ah, yes, the long telegram. the doctrine of the author of containment was george kenin, and it was an anonymous article. it was actually in foreign affairs, wasn t it? yeah, that s right. and this is the first time i m glad we re up against the world series and we re talking about george kennon and foreign affairs. because we can. kennon was an american diplomat. he wrote basically laid out the argument for containment and was the intellectual father of that and wrote it anonymously. you know, i think i look at this in two levels. one is in realtime, the
match them against the public record, like the word malign and its usage in the original anonymous piece. that is a word very much in vogue in the national security set. anyway, i guess we ll have a lot to pore over. jon, thank you very much as always for being my friday night companion. we talk about kennon on a world series night because we can. jon meacham with us tonight. thank you. god bless america. coming up, an honorable man remembered honorably as we echo jon s assertion there, god bless america, as we go to our final break. stay with us for this next story. hi, i m jonathan, a manager here at colonial penn life insurance company, to tell you it is possible. if you re age 50 to 85, you can get life insurance with options starting at just $9.95 a month. okay, jonathan, i m listening.
rally. nobody doubts he s a genius at media. the question with the 25th amendment being raised, i think is not going to happen, just being talked about, is he fit for command, and how in the modern world do we judge psychiatric health of a president? these are big questions. but also anonymous, you mentioned the joe clyde book in the clinton years and i mentioned during harry truman s year, george kennon was mr. x for a while, we get these palace intrigues, government washington intrigues for a while but this one is really weird. beyond the whodunit, somebody who is close to the trump world, part of trump world but not in the white house say to me earlier today there is genuine concern that what we re seeing is the tip of the iceberg and the question is what s underneath. by that, this person meant what s underneath in terms of the real opposition to the president from within.
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