Farewell, Mr. X

Diplomat, Sovietologist George F. Kennan is dead at 101 (NYT), beating out nemeses Josef Stalin, Nikita Krushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev by decades. If you can't outstockpile them, outlive them.

Appropriately, that is the policy that the U.S. adopted toward Communism during the Cold War under Kennan's influence. You may remember that Kennan was the author, under the pseudonym "Mr. X," of the 1947 essay which first articulated the containment approach toward facing down Communism.