Well, the rhetoric of “containment” begs all questions—once you’ve accepted the rhetoric of “containment,” it really doesn’t matter what you say, you’ve already given up everything. Because the fundamental question is, is it true? Has the United States been “containing” the Soviet Union? Well, you know, on the surface it looks a little odd. I mean, maybe you think the Soviet Union is the worst place in history, but they’re conservative—whatever rotten things they’ve done, they’ve been inside the Soviet Union and right around its borders, in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan and so on. They never do anything anywhere else. They don’t have troops stationed anywhere else. They don’t have intervention forces positioned all over the world like we do. So what does it mean to say we’re “containing” them? Chomsky, Noam; John Schoeffel; Peter Mitchell (2002-02-01). Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky (p. 38). New Press, The. Kindle Edition.
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