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Toogood Reports [Tuesday, March 4, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Was communism ever a real threat to the nations of the world, or was it just a phantasm infecting the minds of the cold warriors who for so long supported Containment Theory? As my previous column noted, Containment Theory argued that America had to aggressively confront the power of the Soviet Union, wherever the latter made inroads, or threatened to make them. The main means of confrontation was in putting American troops in the Soviets' path. As omniscient Marxist academics now tell us, Containment Theory has "little or no intellectual...

Toogood Reports [Thursday, February 27, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Cold War thinking was dominated in the West by "Containment Theory," one of whose implications was the Domino Theory. Containment Theory, as originally formulated by diplomat George Kennan, stated that America had to aggressively confront the power of the Soviet Union, wherever the latter made inroads, or threatened to make them. The main means of confrontation was in putting American troops in the Soviets' path. The "Domino Theory" held that the fall of any government to communism likely would topple neighboring governments. The Domino Theory began making a comeback regarding...

Toogood Reports [Tuesday, February 25, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ For over forty years, America pursued the foreign policy, first developed in an anonymously penned, 1947 article by George Kennan (as "X," in what was probably the most important article ever published in the journal Foreign Affairs), of the "containment" of Soviet communism. One of the factors that made containment workable was the very bifurcation of the world that the policy addressed. A world without an Iron Curtain, is a world without containment. Containment Theory was heavily influenced by World War II, in which Nazi Germany toppled one European country...