George Kennan, RIP

OTB has a round-up. Daniel Drezner's post is very good and nuanced.

Contra-Instapundit, Wolfawitz is the Paul Nitze of the War on Terror. Kennan was a true maverick who spent most of his career outside of government. As a thinker/writer/diplomat only Kissinger is his peer in the post-WWII era. Nitize, on the other hand, was the more able policy-maker, was a more engaged thinker, but never produced a book as penetrating at the Memoirs, The White House Years, or A World Restored.

For more on Kennan and Nitze, see Strategies of Containment.