He's talking about U.S. involvement in Vietnam but the truth he speaks is equally applicable today.
2/10/1966
Sen. Fulbright: It's a great difference in the culture and race and language and so on. I take it by this you mean that this is simply not a practicable objective in this country that we can't achieve it even with the best of wills.
Mr. Kennan: This is correct and I have a fear that our thinking about this whole problem is still affected by some sort of illusions about invincibility on our part. That there is no problem, a feeling that there is no problem, in the world which we, if we wanted to devote our resources to it, could not solve. I disbelieve in this most profoundly. I do not think we can order the political realities of areas in a great many other parts of the world.
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