“We should stop putting ourselves in the position of being our brother’s keeper and refrain from offering moral and ideological advice. We should cease to talk about vague and-for the Far East- unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when [...]
“So numerous would be the ramifications of mounting Arab ill will, of opening the door to Soviet political or military penetration, and of generally chaotic conditions in Palestine and neighboring countries that the whole structure of peace and security in the Near East and Mediterranean would be directly or indirectly affected with results… injurious to [...]
“Our national experience is in most respects a unique one; and it is not only possible but something logically to be expected that the institutions flowing from that experience, and organically intertwined with it, should be largely irrelevant to the requirements of peoples whose national experience has been different.”
Kennan, “Report of South American Trip,” March [...]
“They obviosuly represent an extravagant and profoundly misconceived undertaking, in which the relationship of military result to the resources committed is absurdly uneconomical, and which suffers further from the fact that it flies in the face both of the sensibilities of the world public and of the moral conscience of our own.”
Kennan, discussing American bombing [...]