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Entry: Mr. bin Laden, Meet Mr. Kennan--A New Containment Policy Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/mr_bin_laden_meet_mr_kennan_a_new_containment_policy#19860 Post contents: @T.O. Meehan: I apologize for overlooking your comment; Jim's ramblings had distracted me. You wrote: <i>"But here is the, rub. How do we save the Christian West even as the Christians renounce their their own identity? Can we save the edifice of the West even when there may be nothing within?"</i> We can't. And that is the rub. That's why the guiding principle of <i>Chronicles</i> has always been that there are no political solutions to cultural problems. At best, political solutions--such as the foreign-policy proposals I've made in this piece--are rear-guard actions. The real front is in the recovery of faith and family and culture. And, unfortunately, things have declined so far that the battlefields are in our living rooms and dining rooms. The politically obsessed commenters on this website will immediately dismiss that idea out of hand, but unless we can revive something worth defending in our own families, neighborhoods, and parishes, then no national political "solution" will be found. Sent at: 2008 08 29