Contained

(props to Craig, who shared my epitaphany, notched his first hit in 2 years, and foreshadowed George Kennan’s death with a well-time lecture.)

Or
Mr. X'ed out
(also kudos to Craig)

Or
X Marks the Burial Plot
(Plaudits to Mark)
George K. Kennan, whose 1948 signing telegram “The Containment Ragtime Review” established the framework for the U.S. approach to the cold war, had died at the age of 101. At first criticized for the length and cost of the long note, Kennan’s vision was validated by decades of presidents and congressman who couldn’t stop their toes from tapping at appropriations time. The idea of containment was expanded by an article in the Journal of Foreign Affairs under the nom de plume ‘X,’ but the original telegram remained classified for more than 50 years. Like most songwriters, Kennan was dismayed by the cover versions of his little ditty when they were used to justify conventional and nuclear weapons build-ups of the 1950s. From his development of the policy of meeting Soviet aggression at every turn, Kennan was one of the leading foreign-policy thinkers for more than a half century, writing 17 books, including two Pulitzer-Prize winners.