Containment doesn't work without something to "contain," and I really think it is as much our inablitiy to break free from "containment-think" as anything that keeps us poking sticks into places like N. Korea, Iran, Venezuala and even China.

This is why I am for a retirement of containment as the centerpiece of how we engage the world. It demands threats to encircle, and a systems of controls over those who live in that circle to implement.

Also an aspect of why I think we need to elevate Populaces in our equations of engagement. When we have the ass with the govenrment of Iran to be specific in our in our language to say "The government of Iran must..." rather than the standard lumping together of "Iran must..."

We live in dynamic times. We just need to get a bit more dynamic.