In his landmark Foreign Affairs article “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” at the beginning of the Cold War, George Kennan laid out the strategy of containment. He noted how important the example America set domestically – economically, in coping successfully with its internal problems – was to the looming geopolitical competition with the Soviet Union. Yet Kennan did not take the emergence of an America that was a good example for granted. He also noted that, “by the same token, exhibitions of indecision, disunity and internal disintegration within this country have an exhilarating effect on the whole Communist movement.”
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Conscience of a Hellene 