“Containment failed yesterday in Iraq. Containment fails today. And containment

will fail tomorrow. We would be placing hope before experience to think

otherwise, and we will have bequeathed to our children a much more dangerous

world. For if you embrace containment, you must accept proliferation, and

proliferation — not just unchecked but accelerated — will make the violent

century just passed seem an era of remarkable tranquility in comparison.”