<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8a037d9a-20d4-4e3a-a8f6-49a0924f9855/CE2D25E4-AA29-4B3B-AFDB-CB735F6B5040/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118368468496158722.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118368468496158722.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" style="font-size: 11px;">online.wsj.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118368468496158722.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"><P class="times">That middle initial, it turns out, stands for "Frost," a nice instance of "nomen est omen." Kennan (1904-2005) was many things: a diplomat and historian, a brilliant writer, an independent intellect, and a gifted analyst of men and nations. But a warm bundle of human kindness he was not. Mr. Lukacs himself is driven to this conclusion while recounting Kennan's performance on that day in 1939 when Hitler marched into Prague to finish off what was left of Czechoslovakia.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118368468496158722.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"><P class="times">Kennan was often brilliant in his insights -- and more often wrong in his murky resentment of democracy and his odd attraction to Europe's despots of the 1930s. Toward the Soviet Union he would play the contrarian again, arguing against his own, earlier position once it became America's Cold War policy. But in the "Long Telegram," he penned the right words at the right time. That was enough for a place in the pantheon of American history.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CE2D25E4-AA29-4B3B-AFDB-CB735F6B5040/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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