] George Kennan, a giant of U.S. foreign policy who died on
] March 17, will be remembered as the architect of the cold
] war doctrine of containment. But Kennan was more than an
] insightful analyst of the logic behind Soviet
] expansionism. He was a big-picture strategist who
] understood that the cold war could only be won with a
] variety of tools, weapons and ideas. That's why his ideas
] have much to teach us about winning the war on terror.
]
] .
]
] Like the cold war, the war on terror can't be won by
] military means alone. President George W. Bush got it
] wrong when, in a speech at West Point in June 2004, he
] rejected "cold war doctrines of deterrence and
] containment" for the war on terror and argued instead
] that, to defeat terrorism, all that was needed was to
] "take the battle to the enemy."
]
] .

George Kennan's lessons for the war on terror