YOU know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.”

These were the words of the American diplomat George F. Kennan, sitting frail in an old people’s home. He was 92 at the time. He died at the age of 101—a ripe old age, his mind still sharp.

The day he uttered these words, September 26, 2002, Kennan was speaking of the Bush Administration’s determination to launch the war now dubbed the “Iraq War.” Was he prophesyi