Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
The Cold War (the direct, intended result of Containment Doctrine) strengthened the Soviet and ChiComs and shielded them from the consequences of their internal contradictions and from their internal and external enemies. Containment Doctrine was a God-send to those enemies. It gave them protection, a quiet yard in which to plot and play, exactly what they needed to multiply their nefarious activities. The Cold War held the enemy together, gave them power to persist and held back their enemies. Still, they jumped every fence put in their way. One could have been defeated in the 1940s, the other in the 1950s (had they even existed).
Vietnam could have been an offer to assist the Vietnamese generally to defeat their traditional enemy, China (and here), who was pushing into Vietnam then and did again later. A war for national identity and self-support, as the “North” kept saying it was. That would have disposed US power to assist an effort for national self-support against a real and mutual enemy, the ChiComs. Even the Soviet would have helped on that one.
The culprit for hiding that geo-political opportunity: Containment Doctrine. Its destructive, contracting consequences took effect immediately upon its implementation and radiated outwards everywhere, causing a world-wide cock-up of everything from thought to finance to method of eating asparagus. And a lot of blown out time, money and energy.
The Cold War was not won by the NATO allies. It was won by the Communists, who today control the “NATO nations” and much else besides. The Soviet died but not the ChiComs and not the Communists. They have flourished, thanks to the strengthening and protecting effect of Containment Doctrine.
And there was some question about Communists in the State Department, CIA and White House? Whoever did Containment Doctrine helped the Communists. Today they’re helping the Salafists as well, through Containment Doctrine. In Korea, MacArthur’s staff asked incredulously, “Whose side is Washington on [meaning State Department and CIA]?” The bridges over the Yalu River, which carried multiple ChiCom field armies and their supply and resupply south, stand to this day. DOS (Dean Rusk at the Far East Desk, he of the “DMZ” in Vietnam) told the ChiCom CG that the bridges would remain. That CG said he would not have committed to that peninsular campaign had he not received that assurance.
Stupid, ignorant, or deliberate?
Update 1: It could be argued, from the nature of professional as compared to militia armies, that the Soviet collapsed not from economic difficulties, though these were present, but from the emergence, finally, of a professional army. Stalin decimated the professional military leadership of his era. But thirty and forty years later, the Red Army had time and experience to select and develop another professional cadre to lead its armed forces, and it was this cadre and its members’ families who caused the Soviet to withdraw from Afghanistan and return to an approximation of human values. Professional militaries are the guardian of human values. Soldiers recoil from harming for harm’s sake whereas citizen militias do not.
Update 2: Scott Johnson at Power Line and Elliott Abrams at The Weekly Standard
Update 3: Here they go again.
Update 4: Richard Fernandez: The End Of Containment
One sits at table with a long-run hostile and rockets a short-run hostile as a message to the long-run hostile that they had better climb down. That is a Mafia communication technique that did not escape China’s attention.
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA