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"Maybe, on reflection, it is not a Kennan that Mr. Obama needs, but a Kissinger. 'The attainment of peace is not as easy as the desire for it,' Dr. Kissinger once observed. 'Those ages which in retrospect seem most peaceful were least in search of peace. Those whose quest for it seems unending appear least able to achieve tranquillity. Whenever peace—conceived as the avoidance of war—has been the primary objective . . . the international system has been at the mercy of [its] most ruthless member.'
Those are words this president, at a time when there is much ruthlessness abroad in the world, would do well to ponder."
Indeed.
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