Brining Containment Back.

As the policy think tanks in Washington as well as thousands of organizations, private citizens, and crack pots throw in their views on the "Axis of Evil" and what the US should do about this new wave of terror, we must not forget our history of evil empires.
Ian Shapiro's makes a very convincing argument about the rehashing of the Cold War policy of containment by X, George Kennan

Kennan was convinced that arguing with the Soviets was a waste of time. The United States should focus, he believed, on what our enemies did rather than what they said, assuming they would act in response to their interests, not to our arguments. And it works.

Action based on interests, a rationality policy, a policy to which in the new era of global politics does not fit well with the scare tactics of anti "radical Islam" policy. Argument leads no to policy, no action and endless rhetoric. Rhetoric which wins elections, but hardly maintain any semblance of national security. Anarchy within our international system is the driving force behind actions, no one country can dominate the world, set the global agenda, and maintain any of it.
With out this rationality the US and its foreign policy is doomed to spend the rest of its existence frozen within the era of US dominance through its allies. As globalization breaks free the necessity if US involvements within the national economy of its allies, gaps will develop. These gaps in US want and ally need, will create a vast sink hole in US based foreign policy.

Containment is not obsolete. The Bush doctrine is