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U boyz must be joking about Fareed. If you Boyz think Fareed is da bomb I suppose you boyz would vote for Captain Kangaroo as President. Ohhh wait Americans allready have...Sorry, carry on....

Upon further reflection of the interview I saw of Fareed, it has left a bad taste in my mouth. He also knows his current events however it is shallow interpetation and does not reflect on the historical context of what he is reporting on. He like his generation lives in the moment, and as such disregards knowing about the past as being irrelvelant to the present.


Comment by TABS on Friday, May 2 at 08:21 AM

Both Dr Zakaria and Tom Freidman are 34 years late to this party. Way back in 1974 Dr Jorge Nef was talking at the University of California about the rise of the Multi-national corporation and the relative decline of the nation state as the global economy developed. As the investment of capital in those foreign lands came to fruition the rest of the world has risen to make the world flat. Politically the United States is the old man of the world who is stuck in his thinking and his ways of doing business in that world. It is difficult for the United States to realize that it is not the only game in town, that it has competition to be king of the hill. Dr Zakaria should also recognize that it was the United States that set all this into motion by design with the Marshall Plan in the late 1940's. The design was that by fostering capitalism and free trade in the world one could beat the forces of communism by creating an economic juggernaut that would improve the well being of people in the world. At the time the US saw it as a security issue, but from there corporations invested capital in foreign lands and the ending of the Cold War has allowed that capital to bloom as never before. Dr Zakaria also should realize that if you don't know where you have been how do you know where your at or where your going, because you have no point of reference. In other words the world didn't begin the day you were hatched, and your not the first person to invent the wheel. Other than that Dr Zakaria is one sharp cookie and deserves to be listened to. Maybe he can teach an old dog some new tricks.