7 definitions
Disparity (n.) was the planner's frank goal: keep our wealth beside the poverty of others and drop talk of rights and living standards.
Energy (n.) is a leash: control a rival's oil and you hold a veto over it — choke the supply if it ever gets out of line.
Heroism (n.) is endurance for one moment more.
Human rights (n.) were, in George Kennan's secret advice, a vague and unreal objective to drop in favour of straight power — though fine, even obligatory, in public speeches.
Idealism (n.) is for display to others, including the intellectual classes expected to promulgate it, while planners deal in straight power concepts.
Raw material (n.) are "ours" wherever they happen to lie, in Kennan's pragmatism, with an inherent right of access — by conquest if need be.
Veto power (n.) over rivals comes from controlling their energy: Kennan saw that holding Japan's oil supply would give the US a veto over its policy.