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By Fareed Zakaria, CNN
Now that Mitt Romney is once again the front-runner, his campaign focus is returning to President Obama. And he's probably going to start repeating a line that he's used often in the past: "This is a president who fundamentally believes that this next century is the post-American century."
Now, I leave it to the president to describe what he believes, but as the author of the book The Post-American World, I'd like to clarify the phrase. At the very beginning of the book, I note: "This is a book not about the decline of America but rather about the rise of everyone else."
Throughout the book, I am optimistic about America, and I'm convinced it can prosper in this new world and remain the most powerful country on the planet. But I argue that the age of America's singular dominance, its unipolarity, has ended. For a quarter-century after the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union, the United States dominated the world with no real political or economic competitors.
Mitt, we are in a different world now.
In 1990, China represented 2% of global gross domestic product. It has quadrupled, to 8%, and it's rising. By most estimates, China's economy will become the world's largest between 2016 and 2018. And this is not simply an economic story. China's military capacity and reach are also expanding. Beijing's defense spending is likely to surpass America's by 2025.
It's not just China that's rising. Emerging powers on every continent have achieved political stability and economic growth and are becoming active on the global stage. Twenty years ago Turkey was a fragile democracy, dominated by its army, constantly in need of Western economic bailouts. Today, Turkey has a trillion-dollar economy that grew 6.6% last year. Since April 2009, Turkey has created 3.4 million jobs - that's more than the entire European Union, Russia and South Africa put together.
Look in this hemisphere: In 1990, Brazil was emerging from decades of dictatorship and was wracked by inflation rates that reached 3,000 percent. Today, Brazil is a stable democracy, steadily growing with foreign-exchange reserves of $350 billion.
I could go on, Mitt.
Barack Obama has succeeded in preserving and even enhancing U.S. influence in this world precisely because he has recognized these new forces at work. He has traveled to the emerging nations and spoken admiringly of their rise. He replaced the old Western club and made the Group of 20 the central decision-making forum for global economic affairs. By emphasizing multilateral organizations, alliance structures and international legitimacy, he got results. It was Chinese and Russian cooperation that produced tougher sanctions against Iran. It was the Arab League's formal request last year that made Western intervention in Libya uncontroversial.
Mitt, by and large you have ridiculed this approach to foreign policy, arguing that you would instead expand the military, act unilaterally and talk unapologetically. But chest-thumping triumphalism won't help you secure America's interests or ideals in a world populated by powerful new players. You can call this new century whatever you like, but it won't change reality. After all, just because we call it the World Series doesn't actually make it one.
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Would you really expect anything less from Mitt Romney?! Though I'm quite sure that he is pandering to his base, when he makes those statements, it's really hard to discern what he really believes. He basically has no core, and has been on both sides of virtually every issue – depending on who he is talking to. But yes, for the purposes of this article, yes Mr. Zakaria, Mitt is completely 100 percent out of touch with reality. It is a new world, but America is still great. Obama knows and believes this in his core.
Of course Mitt's pandering to his base; that's his job, he's a politician.
What's interesting is that you don't see that Farred is pandering to HIS base through his reductio ad absurdum 'analysis' of Romney's sound bites.
Its sad that you would offer nothing but opinion when this is what has been said Mittens... it is very clear that the GOP policy encourages more military and less diplomacy setting us back to where we were in 2008.
Huh? Farred has no base. He is an academic not a politician. Duh.
If by "his base" you mean the mentally sound and those with a realistic knowledge of the world then you are correct. If you mean something else then neither you or I know what you are talking about.
Fareed is a devoted muslim who has been promoting the Calipha agenda and the spread of Islam in the US. He may drink wine but nevertheless he would try to manipulate the american christians in believing that the Muslim countries have changed. THEY HAVE NOT! Fareed would never speak of the islamic mental terrorism that Europe is undergoing on a daily basis he only tires to work the american mind to accept islam as equal.
Royal Blue - islam is equal in terms of crazy indoctrination with all the other religions... specifically in this country with the supposed freedom of religion
@Royal Blue are you islamophobic and an evangelical? Just checking because you sound like the typical Tea Party freedom to religion preachers as long as it is their own of course.
It might interest you that there is a difference between religion and tradition and that fact he pointed out few times in few articles – one specific where arabic members basically took apart the middle east and why they turned it into the political mess they have today.
A sound bite is already "reductio ad absurdum".
An excellent and obvious point!
Fareed is pandering to his base??? His base are readers who wish to read or hear serious, intellectual conversation and debate, which Fareed is excellent with. In order to keep his job, he must simply continue with his well written work. He is not running for an election and does not need to. One should think about what you are writing before you write it or think about what you say before you say it. This tendency is why so many people (usually republicans) often vote against their own interests in this country.
Obama has no core.
Communist China replaced the Soviet Union as one of our key adversaries, joining Islamic Terrorist groups and Islam o-Fascists governments.
-Fareed, We are in a different world.
The rising economies around the world are good for the United States, however, China lacks a key component that Turkey and Brazil have: FREEDOM.
-I could go on, Fareed
The Chinese Communists and the Russian Putin Regime blocked action against Syria.
Egypt is in utter chaos.
The United States should be a leader in the world for freedom, not a back-bencher to others.
Your problem is that you expect immediate change. Not so when you are looking at developing countries democratically or economically. These developing countries take time and history as shown that even the countries you have mentioned are in a better place today than 20 years ago. Things don't happen overnight. China and Russia still need to grow and the people of these countries understand this. Just look to recent protests in Russia over Putin. China' President once said in response to the becoming democratic "What does democracy look like when you have billions of people that speak many different dialects? Things take time and China will evolve but it won't happen overnight. The Chinese President went on to say, about Canadian international schools and exchanges that "we would like our people to learn your values.
Sounds like amethodical plan for real change.
I think the GOP has no core. They are sitting in a dreamworld refusing to recognize the fact that sabre rattling gets you nowhere. They are quick to say Obama is a failed President, and his policies are poor. I think the real failed President was Bush who got us into the mess. Why do we as tax payers have to pay for infrastructure development in Iraq qhich we destroyed and not pay for anything at home. Then it becomes a handout. charity begins at home, unfortunately the GOP does not realize that. I am just totally fed up with their constant diparagement and disrespsect for anything the President does.
I voted Republican, but no more. I rather withold my vote than vote garbage.
To say that China is our new adversary is to ignore the reality of what China has been doing. There is perhaps no clearer statement of China's intent to extend its military power than the fact that it bought three discarded Russian aircraft carriers ... only to turn one of them into a floating military park (like the one in NY harbor) and another into a floating hotel.
You are one big ignorant idiota,no nothing about Brasil,they have way more fridom than you with your fake democracy,go and educate yourself,Zakaria his right
How can you say that Brazil has no FREEDOM and if we want the USA to lead and not be a back burner as you say, then start with the Palestinian problem and lean on Israel that has 300 plus UN Resolutions condemning their actions. Thats LEADERSHIP.
Read it again: the poster (Poparollo) said that Turkey and Brazil DO have freedom. It is China he is talking about.
So what's your point? Fareed has acknowledged as much. the problem with the Republicans and their right-wing extremist pals is that they live in a fantasy land where they believe America can dominate its adversaries through pure guile. This is ignorant jingoism. The Chinese are playing a long game. They snicker as our politicians gridlock over debt, education, energy etc. If the Republicans win this year we'll get another lesson in how conservative ideals never seem to make it into the policies they actual govern with.
Long before there was an Obama as president, there were others before him who brought great harm to the rest of the world. Long before there was an Obama as president, there were others who thought that bullying other nations into submission was the way to having respect throughout the rest of the world. There were some good GOP presidents in our American history, but I must say that we have not produced any since Reagan, whom I as an Independent voted for for his second term. I don't believe in all the "Reagan" hype, because he did have his issues as well, but as a Independent- I will vote for Obama once again. This GOP field of candidates have failed to show the maturity and international policy/diplomacy intent that we so desperately need to hold the office of the President of the United States. The GOP candidates we have now, if one of them were to win the White House, would take this country back to an era of bullying and taking.
The USA has for the last last decade overstepped its bounds in policing the world. I for one am not wiling to sacrifice more American lives solely for the benefit of some overly greed super capitalists. The GOP in general and Mitt in particular are the geriatric diseases which are killing the heart of America. Old men with old ideas. Time to retire.
To Popparollo,
I am in love with Fareed's intellect and offer great sympathy for your disposition. Fareed is correct but then I already knew most of what he states. l
You mean a leader of freedom like invading Iraq, Rumsfeld selling WMD to Saddam, changing the regime in Iran before the Mullah regime took advantage of that mess, attacking Cuba and pushing it into the corner it is today with the embargoes – oh yes let America be the country which rules in freedom.
Your own citizen have less freedom than European give me a break. Educate yourself first and stop watching FOX news.
You sound rather stupid.
usa military = nest 16 country's military combined. usa's huge and global military's primary responsibility = protect america's "interests" also known as huge mega global business using america as their office and our military as their security. you and i are insignificant in this $$$ venture, perhaps even a deficit at this time....but heck we ride those coattails to have our lovely life style and "freedom." lucky to live in the country where the big dogs live..at least for now. history shows big dogs change from time to time.
Mitt is a devoted MORMIN who has been promoting Polygamywhy do you think all the sister wives and their children have been turning out the vote for him in Nevada. Mitt is certainly no Christian.
I think first people of US needs to work on FREEDOM for its own from the 1%
Zakaria is so enamored with President Obama that he can't see clearly. Russia, China, Iran and others have been laughing at Obama's weakness. Look at the recent resolution over Syria. Russia, China took a position which directly contradicts that of the US. They no longer respect us as a world leader. Obama has seen to that..
World leader? By your rationale, every country in the world should see the US as the world leader and stand with the US? You are ridiculous. Since when did it become wrong to have an opposite opinion? I thought everybody has freedom of expression and conscience, since, you konw, that is the US is all about...
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Obama has no clue what real America is. Wake up!!
And what is "real Amerca"? Your answer please. I would really like to know. Let's see if you can get any kind of consensus.
*** Frank Welch
Obama has no clue what real America is. Wake up!!
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We are awake, Obama is doing fine.
Take your finger out of your nose.
Yeah, it was a real b itch how he kept us out of a major depression, wasn't it?
Dina, ask all those on Food stamps or whatever they have named the program to make it more PC these days.
Frank, I realize that this article used too many big words for you to understand. Now that you have spewed your auto-reflex anti-Obama Troll bile, go back under your bridge and let the adults talk.
Oh please tell us what real America is. We all know what you are insinuating with your comment. Why don’t you me a real man and say what you really mean. But oh no! You are too chicken to do that. Typical Republicans. Hiding their true beliefs and thoughts behind words and insinuations. You make me sick.
Frank is on FÄÜX autopilot
Frank..it is quite apparent that you are the clueless one here..ignorance is bliss...you are proof positive..
Dina – The FEDS [aka Big Banks] Kept you out of a recession. Pay back for Obamas bail-outs of their friends in banks and big businesses to the tune of $4 TRILLION.
Your Big Money decides who will be president of the USA – You just go along with it .
As long as you understand that the Federal Reserve and Corporations yank your strings and you keep jumping [and nodding, of corse.] you'll be OK. All you NEED at the moment is a community organizer and that's ehat you've got!
Please tell us Frank- what is the "real America"?
Two spelling mistakes sorry. I got so mad I pressed the wrong keys!
@BeHonest:
I lost count after seeing three typos in your response...not two.
I agree that Obama is out of touch. He and his wife's vacations prove this well. I beleive there are about 6 of us watching Fareed's Drivel (I cannot watch the Suprer Bowl here). Where did he find his panel of whiny babies for tonight's show anyway?
Fareed Zakaria is a pompous fool...who is anti-American at his core. His entire belief is much like that fool Obama....America is bad, and every other country is good. Obama and Zakaria are both dangers to a free world.
Zakaria is right.
Its a new world out there.
Move forward, or get left behind.
Here's a quote from the article, as he summarizes his book:
"This is a book not about the decline of America but rather about the rise of everyone else. ... Throughout the book, I am optimistic about America, and I'm convinced it can prosper in this new world and remain the most powerful country on the planet."
Your name, Zakariaisafool, indicates only that the figment-of-your-imagination Zakaria is a fool. The real Zakaria, as shown by what he says and writes, is just the opposite.
Zakariaisafool watching FOX News supporting the Military and being a member of ze Tea Party are you?
Just checking because you sound pretty retarded. Wait who did invade a country based on fabricated evidence so the US military can make money paid by your own tax dollars and gain access to the oil fields through contracts?
Man you guys are pathetic – America should get a second Mayflower and send you to the moon.
Your insulting pronunciamento does nothing for your credibility. What i hear from you is evidence-free bluster.
Romney doesn't seem to care about the aversion of the international community towards his bellicose rhetorics during his campaign. He has no idea that diplomacy is more effective than aggression and weaponry. America needs a president to tackle the challenges of the 21st century and not someone dwelling in the past.
how do you or David Remnick (whose words make me want to cancel my New Yorker sub) know what Romney feels or believes? – you judge to soon and unfairly
Cathy – If Romney means what he says, it is not too soon or very hard to ascertain what he believes. He has made it very plain. He sincerely believes in a lot of bellicose nonsense. Maybe he does not mean what he says and he is playing to his base and trying to get Tea Party votes. If he means what he is saying, he is completely out of touch. If he does not mean what he is saying, he is being intellectually dishonest. Either way, it is pathetic.
Pro-Obama subtle campaign by Main(Lame) Stream Media has started rather early this election cycle, Isn't it Fareed?
(I am from India and proud to see you -an Indian- highly respected in a field other than Medicine, IT, 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts)
But Fareed, please. For you to turn your show as an anti-Romney Op-Ad (suble Pro-Obama campaigning) is blatant.
I voted for Clinton, Gore, Kerry (reluctantly) but NOT Obama. Main stream media is an endless, shameless a Pro-Obama machine.
I am a political junky and I have not heard reference to you, Fareed, when Romney uses 'Post-American World' phrase.
Why then, Fareed, such a overt electioneering? Totally un-called for.
I dread another election-year Obama media-military.
God bless America!!!!
*** Main(Lame) Stream Media
Only six year olds, and sarah Palin fans use this term.
Can't stand the phrase "Main Stream Media", especially attached to "Liberal". Considering the ratings of the Fox "news" machine, I'd say they're pretty much the king of "Main Stream" right now.
@Dina "mainstream"?
FÄÜX news is on basic cable with 3 million viewers put of over 300 million people. The median age of FÄÜX viewers is 65! They have an African audience of about 29,000 out of their 3 million viewers.
YUP. That's pretty mainstream, riiiiight.
Keep drinking that FÄÜXIAN koolaid.
Ops, African-American audience.
You haven't actually said anything of substance. Why is it not possible that he thinks Obama's approach simply makes more sense than his opponents and that is why he is supporting it? If you've read all his articles you will see that there are plenty of criticisms of Obama in them. If you want to contribute to finding solutions to the U.S.'s problems, please provide details of your argument so the rest of us can understand how you drew your conclusions and see if they make sense.
This post is not fundamentally credible. Anyone who voted Clinton, Gore, Kerry, McCain/Palin must surely have suffered a brain aneurysm. I call Troll.
Spot on, Ashukla!
Fareed is stating to show his bias which is truly sad. Fareed used to be quite unbiased but is showing more and more Obama support these days. Perhaps it is due to his 'advisor' role to the PRes. Either way, Fareed needs to step out of political commentary and stick to foreign affairs.
The media is so biased and it is more blatant now than ever. In 2008, when 2 incompetent Dems were fighting in the primary, no one seems to notice the dysfunction.
Ashkula so you voted for whats her face as VP?! You're a nut.
This is not the question, whether or not America has declined and the rest of the world has come up...the question is who is disseminating such an "idea"? I think a foreigner, I think it has to do with people such as Zakaria, who with the CFR, has tried for some time now to paint a "Declining" picture of America. We are not the one's in DECLINE. It is the mentality of theses so called New Americans, who have just come to our shores, but has no idea what being American is. It's called......get ready....FREEDOM!!! .....FREEDOM KEEPS AMERICA STRONG, NOT THE OUT PUT OF DETROIT.
Fareed Zakaria. How do you come up with this stuff? You used to be somewhat OK once. Now just baseless talk. Stop constantly promoting yourself and your own political preferences. There is NO respect for Obama in ANY part of the world today. And yes i am a democrat.
Well said Alex. Great post.
Fareed ought to leave it to Obama to do his own electioneering. This is a ccheap and shoddy argument – it could have come from China!
Seems like Zakaria had a funky breakfast – his bias is really showing – and his impression of Romney is so OFF....normally I like listening to FZ – but he's so biased today it's hard to listen to...
Really? No respect?? Believe me, the respect has significantly increased during the Obama term... What I hear from people around the world is how ridiculous the republican primaries are...
Royal Blue, if he where a devoted muslim he wouldn't be drinking wine.
Anyone who thinks the socialist Fareed Zakaria is correct, needs to recharge their thinking batteries. Folks you are looking at deceptive socialists here and most Americans haven't figured that out. They will, but will it be too late?
This is the perfect useless post. Use the words "socialist" and "deceptive" with no facts, no analysis, no explanation. Just nonsense. If you explain the reasons for an opinion, most people are open to at least considering it, whether or not they ultimately agree, but this kind of thing is just useless.
I see you have been studying the 25 rules of disinformation.
Forge ahead with your automatic FÄÜX talking points.
Astounding that you buy into Fareeds' open criticism of Romney, but don't see that he's "politicking" too. Funny how left wing people can't see through this self-serving dribble. For my self, I'm stunned about Fareeds' comments. I've always watched and read his articles for their balance and intellectual components. But.....I guess what can you expect from someone who works for Time magazine and supports Obama. I, for one, will no longer watch his program now that his agenda is very clear.
I think the reason Mr. Zakaria is popular across a broad range of viewers is that he has offered intelligent insights and a balance of viewpoints from a global perspective. This intelligence and balance has made Mr. Zakaria refreshing and different than any of the other media voices which are so obviously biased. In a word, Fareed has been credible.
But today's show, particularly Fareed's Take and the following group discussion completely lost balance and that is too bad because Mr. Zakaria lost his credibility going forward in any coverage of the U.S. 2012 Presidential elections and to a big extent, all of his viewpoints.
Obama the peacenik (outstretched hand to Iran) has been replaced by Obama the pragmatist (clenching his fist and expanding the covert strategy started by Bush). It's not a credit to Obamas' inventiveness but rather that his presidential internship has improved his judgment from idealistic newbie to mature middle-of-the-roader.
Obama will continue to be shielded by the media and championed by the likes of Fareed. If he's re-elected, expect more in the way of lack of conviction as the US continues to move sideways. Don't expect much in the way of informed discourse from Fareed Zakaria. Better off reading other less biased pundits.
It’s true Fareed is an Academic, however you can’t argue with the numbers, denying China, India, Brazil are rising would be putting your head in the sand. Unfortunately numbers do not lie, just try doing it with the IRS, it will be sad outcome for you.
You are correct in your observations....Romney HAS in fact been on both sides of almost every issue he has addressed....EXCEPT FOR ONE.
He is NOT on the SIDE OF THE PEOPLE....he IS on the side of SOME PEOPLE....and they would be the upper one tenth of one percent of the American Economic Profile.
The American people, that is to say the average working man and woman in addition to our "VULNERABLES"(the poor, sick, elderly and the retired) are not in his UNIVERSE OF IMPORTANT CONCERNS....in fact, from what the rest of his POLITICAL BRETHREN are saying and doing, the REST OF AMERICA OTHER THAN THE WEALTHY ARE ON THEIR OWN. The TeaPublicans MAIN MANTRA is SELF RELIANCE AND SELF SUSTENANCE....an IMPOSSIBILITY FOR MANY OF OUR NATION, but NECESSITY FOR THE TEA POT TALIBAN and they are busy crafting legislation to ENFORCE THIS MALIGNANT NOTION.
These are RANDIAN FOOLS out to destroy this nation and attack it's people...all for their OBNOXIOUS IDEOLOGY.
To EICKE, Foe your information in islam, tradition stems from religion and people follow religion on a daily basis 5 times a day reassuring everyone that the religion is their way of life. Religion controls family life, neighborhood life and community life. it controls politics and even how to do business. IT even controls the choice of husbands and wives. Religion and tradition obligates every muslim to conquer and force others into Islam. Chapter 9-10 in the Koran would en-light you. And the more you read the more violent it becomes. I am not an evangelical, but I have been under a muslim terrorist attack where many people on a ship were hurt, and know those people from close. Fareed is the speaker for the muslim brotherhood, he is bright and educated but every word he says especially concerning the arab spring should be carefully analyzed.
As a MORMON reglion dictates every aspect of Mitts life, how many wives. Mormon believe in MEN marrying young girls . As Mormon Bishop Mitt Romney he had a relationship with Jeff Warren . I guess this must be every GOP man dream .
Zakaria has a crush on Obama LOL. Dude, you seriously are the most biased journalist of all time. Everyone, keep in mind the author thinks America's best days are long over and we need to mold into England and give zillions to Muslim middle eastern countries.
Obama has no love for what made America the great country it is. His vision is a welfare state, with our standard of living lowered, but no matter, at least everyone will be equal.
msnbc, cbs,abc, and cnn have done a masterful job in promoting four more years for obama, via their promotion of romney..once the chinese take over, and they will, these proveyors of one way or the highway mentality, will be sweeping floors in some factory in beijing..no doubt about it..
You said it all, said it well. in a world of evolution, America changes fom us to me only, greed, greed, greed. expotentially. Mitt sounded just like Barry Goldwater except the world has changed, people around the world ripe the benefits of better education, and openning economic opportunity. We are the REAL poor, the 99% poor. our wages have not been growing in the past 10 years. we are the 99% you don't care about. Mitt, money can only buy ads and votes, it doesn't buy hearts and souls.
Great comment!!!
Oh poor baby....are you part of the 99% ....Awwww...
Guess Obama is helping you out after the past three years???? so everything should be good!
99percentersaremorons:
You just admitted you're a moron?
Or part of the one percent?
Pick one.
Coveting goes hand in hand with greed.
Just to inform you....Americas' 99% are the 1% of the rest of the world.
Cheers
"once the Chinese take over" – if we present a United States that is focused on being in charge, the one world power, we will bust up any chance that we have to be a part of emerging markets, and should China really take a stab at growing past their current "that's ours" scope (Hong Kong, Nepal, Tibet) we won't be in a position to coalesce a unified free world against that. Republican "our way or the highway" thinking would have us cast aside, Democrats are a force in the world conversation because they realize that outside interests want to leave the negotiating table with a win as well.
The degree to which Romney is out of touch with the real world of real people and real geopolitics is really striking. He's like Scrooge McDuck inside his vault counting his money without the faintest idea (or concern) about what's going on outside. And now he wants to be president! It's a joke.
America and the world can not afford GOP politics and foreign policy.
you're SO WRONG – we need to have both the GOP and the Dems involved in policy – and not have the flakey autocrat Obama whistling at the edges of the world...
People said the same glowing things about James Earl Carter 30+ years ago and Reagan replaced and bettered him.
Democrats have a long history of talking down to everyone who uses logic, common sense and relies on facts. They consider the average person to be an ignoramus who needs to be "taken care of" and incapable of rational thought and therefore deserving of freedom, but on a controlled basis.
I don't need this political hack author or you to talk down to a brilliant and successful person in Mitt Romney or, assumedly
May be the people who feel that they are being "talked down to" should educate themselves
If you don't see the irony in using Carter vs. Reagan to support the Republican side of a foreign policy effectiveness argument then there really is no hope of you listening to reason. Carter was brokering foreign policy deals on behalf of the US long after most people would have retired, Democratic and Republican administrations alike beat a path to his door to line up his next negotiation.
*** Democrats have a long history of talking down to everyone who uses logic...
What logic would that be ?
Eight years of complete destruction under Bush,
and you would put another Republican back in the white house
to continue the same policies ?
Some logic.
"Democrats have a long history of talking down to everyone who uses logic, common sense and relies on facts."
And Republicans have established a reputation for using the phrase "common sense" to deflect attention from a lack of education and knowledge. Can anyone really take a party seriously that nominated someone as blazingly ignorant as Sarah Palin to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency? Anyone who voted for that ticket should frankly recuse themselves this time around. That was exactly the excuse for her, that she had this supposedly rare commodity "common sense".
@Pete – Excellent point about Carter!
Jim you have to be kidding. Please tell me what logic, common sense and facts Romney, or anyone on the right, is using to dispute Fareed's point? You provide none, yet claim that democrats talk down to those that use facts logic and common sense.
Well sir, I see absolutely NO evidence that anyone on the right ever uses logic or common sense. I hear them thump their chests about how the country is falling to pieces and the world is a heartbeat from destroying America and the only shred of hope we have against all these fearsome boogie-men is to vote republican. Fareed lists many facts, including GDP numbers and increased production and increases in military spending, then uses logic to make common sense deductions about America's ability to remain the Dictators of world policy.
No, it seems very plain to me that conservatives actually fight AGAINST facts and common sense, with their preferred weapons; FEAR and ANGER. (Case in point – that's how Romney routed Gingrich in FL – FEAR FEAR FEAR the Newt!)
Good article, love that last line on the World Series – it sums it up nicely.
Amen.
Totally agree, fantastic introduction to an excellent discussion this Sunday. 2012 is so different from 20 years ago, the challenges and tools required to solve these challenges are different. Well said, Fareed!!!!
I agree.
Sorry but I believe this author is out of touch. We have seen nothing but decline in America since Bush and it has accelerated under Obama. I see you state in your book that the next century is about the rise of everyone- The debate is that you believe everyone is going to rise through government intervention and handouts ( a failed liberal philosophy ) or we are going to get back to hard work, self reliance and a smaller government. Heave n help us if your philosophy wins in 2012
At what point did Zakaria state or imply that "everyone is going to rise through government intervention and handouts"? I read his book, and it isn't there either. This comment a typical dog-whistle Republican talking points, disconnected from the topic and from reality.
That's just it, bbear..... it's all about infrastructure that never gets built because the funds are funneled to the redistribution of wealth via the public sector union pension systems.
It's all bullschidt.
I don't know which book you've been reading but it certainly wasn't the one that Fareed wrote.
Which sounds like a book of pro-Obama doe eyed dreaming........
Frank – "Sounds like"? Where are you pulling that from? You didn't read it. Did You?
Everything you just said, sounded like a GOP talking point.
They got you right where they want you.
The fallacy is that you can build a country like the United States out of self reliance, by which I think you mean everyone for themselves. You appear to have glossed over two hundred years of U.S. History. Let's revisit that history a little bit. First, we didn't just assemble into the U.S. like some primordial multi-celled organism We had to fight the British. To do this the colonial governments–yes, that's right, governments not businesses– organized people into militias and the whole thing was coordinated by a guy named George Washington who worked for the government. Believe it or not, the revolutionary war cost money to fight and it wasn't provided by generous donors. Taxes were collected to pay for it. The whole history of the progress in the U.S. involves the government partnering with private industry but itself being the primer mover. Our highway system which greatly expanded internal commerce was ordered by Eisenhower and funded in large part by the government When the internet began, no companies stepped forward to fund it. It was too theoretical and the road to profitability too long. The government funded it via DARPA. We talk about the wild west but in reality the economic powerhouse that California has become occurred after government was formed and regulations and law and order were established so that businessmen could rely on not being constantly robbed or swindled. Yes, some talented people made money before this occurred but the vast majority of progress came afterwards.
I absolutely love this post – it is just so refreshing to see someone make a cogent argument and also provide the historical basis for it. The whole "Libs love big government" vs. "Conservatives are anti-big government" is just so stale and simplistic. Counter-productive too.
Short and to the point. Factually correct and perfectly written.
Spoken like someone who has no idea what he's talking about but wants very much to sound like he does.
Fareed Zakaria need to give his patronizing lecture, repleat with common knowledge, to an unknowing and uncaring Barack Hussein Obama...Obambi could use the advise!
The past three years have been a stretch we should never forget. Two wars and an economic collapse. Imagine the past three years with McCain or Romney at the helm?
The two wars were begun by Bush, and the economic collapse was a direct result of his policies.
Incorrect. The Taliban and Osama bin laden are to blame for the wars and policies put in place in the 1990's by the likes of barney frank are largely to blame for the economic downturn.
Each of these GOP candidates have pressed for military action in Iran. Yet none of these people seem to remember that Russia backs Iran militarily. They said they would intervene. Romney's plan is to cut the safety nets and double military spending (read his plan). This will be a disaster and create more debt than Obama ever dreamed of. These people want to continue to force their will, (look at statements made about Cuba) around the world. America simply will not survive a Republican in office with this mentality.
Typical Republican.
Ignore the eight years before Obama, as if they never happened.
What nonsense, these idiots are talking, Yes, Obama has proved the Best on Foreign Affairs. Yes, world is progressing, not regressing like typical Americans in rural area without any knowledge and based on color think. It is changing. America needs to change. Yes, it is changing in the "Right Direction". Yes, it is changing under Obama. Do not be color-blinded. Mitt Romney does not have any idea of this Nation. He will sell this nation to China, India, Bangladesh etc., O.k, True, True, true, Farheed, hats off to you. An Educated.
OBAMA 2012! the only thing Robmey has going on is that he has run a business! That doesn't make him an expert on World Matters! He should just shut up about things he knows nothing about, but as usual he spouts some non-sense and next week, that non-sense will be changed to something else!
Foreign Affairs? Obama must be so wonderful that he and Mrs. Clinton had been secretly trying to make friends with the Taliban? Yes...under our noses?! You should be ashamed of yourself.
Engaging an adversary in negotations is hardly "making friends with the Taliban". What they are doing is trying to lay down a path to a viable endgame. Big difference.
CNN always so biased. Zakaria, haven't you claimed to be an Hussein Obama advisor? Where is the disclosure? You have missed the point anyway. Obama does not believe in American exceptionalism, that is the point!!! Also, why don't you disclose your wealth and income and then how much of your personal assets and income you have re-distributed? Obama has weakened America, but that is what you want, right?
In his country they'd kidnap him, chop off his head, throw his body in a ditch and post it on an Islamic website complete with background music.
So, Mr. Overgrown, Pompous, Bigoted, Ignoramus!! Do you even know which country he's from? Hint... it's NOT an Islamic country... it's not in the middle East.... it's not even a Muslim majority country.
(let's leave aside the fact that even if he were, your comment was bigoted and hateful)
Fareed comes from India you moron. There are no violent things happening there as your brain suggests.
I see the ignorami are on the prowl - "his country" is India, which is minority Islamic, 100 times more tolerant than most other countries, and where Fareed is very well respected. Go get an education.
100 times more tolerant than most other countries? Hmmm. Leaving off the fact that 16% of Indians are kept in a state of sanctioned hopelessness, it might be worth mentioning that India is a prominent nation among those who like to set fires to Christian churches with Dawits inside them. I would guess that Egypt will have a lot to say in coming years about which nation will claim leadership in burning Christians alive, but for now, India stands atop the medal platform. Now if you are a member of a liberal arts college, you should find it a fun project to perform moral equivalency of using hurtful words on campus to burning Christians and keeping slaves in India. That is if you can turn off Comedy Central long enough to write a paper.
Calm down guys! Every Messenger of God Taught Love, Compassion and Tolerance to humanity. Jesus beats every body else like Mr. Bolt in last Olympics 100 mts. Unfortunately nobody gets truly follow his path especially those who claim that he is their God. In Alabama people use to burn houses and kill the innocent. In every country there are Morons !!!
In the name of God nobody know howmany young kids and helpless were abused
It is strange how people form opinions from Commercisl media and Propaganda News !
He's from India.........which is why he doesn't even understand 90% of his fellow Muslims. He lives in some blissful haze of ignorance assuming all Muslims are as mellow as the ones in India.
KRB, you spout a lot of crap but you offer no facts what so ever! Do you have proof of what Obama believes or did you just pull that out of listening to FAUX news?
Read Obama's books, David. There you will find his beliefs. He said judge him by the folks that he surrounds himself with; communists, socialists and left-wing radicals are what I see: Van Jones, sworn communist; Summers: crook; Emanuel: Chicago Thug; Dunn, who thought Mao was a great leader, and it goes on and on. Not to mention all the tax payer money that went to political handlers and donors in the "green energy" compainies that went bankrupt. (SOLYNDRA). Put down the kool-aid and reefer, David and maybe you can think for yourself. Obama is corrupt.
KRB, there is no way you read his books judging by your comment.
The rich and powerful of his day criticized Jesus for the company he kept – "This man meets with sinners and even eats with them." Did this make Jesus corrupt?
Bush has weakened America.
Obama is fixing it.
Next.
Put down the reefer you quack. Obama has added 5 trillion to the deficit; placed more people on food stamps; discouraged personal responsibility and then goes around saying America is arrogant and lazy.
Why is Zakaria the only person that make sense anymore? Our government is full of good looking rich dullards...
Infrastructure. Little electric powered green cards. Everyone move to the urban bubble and take public transportation.
That's what we're trying right now. And the poverty rate in Amerika has doubled.
And you think it makes sense?
Mr. Period – You have all this hatred built upon touchy-feely stuff, hallway / water fountain / living room conversations, and just plain rumors and rejoinders. If you are really so passionate about politics, world affairs, etc., have you ever thought to spend some time doing a bit of serious, unbiased, non-partisan reading? There are several good sources.
Gingrich may be bigoted and hateful, but at least he is well-read and knowledgeable. You are both hateful AND ignorant.
You have been running around on CNN for months posting the same drivel.
You blame Obama for everything, but completely ignore the eight years of disaster
under Bush.
You dont understand politics or the global economy.
You just hate liberals.
You sound like a six year old stomping his feet.
Pull your finger out of your hole, and get some fresh air.
With Cheech and Chong no longer performing, it's harder and harder to find people who make sense isn't it?
Why is that you want someone to hoover over the world and opress those around you ?
Do you need someone to tell us what we can and can't drive;
What temperatureour thermostat should be set at;
What foods we can't eat;
Tell us exactly what do you see in the wacko liberal agenda that is so appealing ?
envy – much?
Zakaria manages to turn an advertisement for his new book into an article. Shameless hucksterism!
the article is refreshing! well spoken. once a while, someone write like an adult.
Its called taking advantage of Capitalism and Freedom while proclaiming it evil.
Excellent article. Absolutely spot on!
Mitt don't care about the poor or dogs. He will be the perfect Republican candidate. This would be even better for the Democrats if he picks Palin, The Donald or Newt as this running mate.
LOL! Neut(or) has already said that Sara Palin would hold a BIG office in his administration, but to think of Robmey and Palin together would be a contest of who had the biggest!
Mitt doesn't car about the poor and that's why he has given 17% of his earnings away to charity. How much has Obama given away? How about you? Who gives more to charity as a percentage of earnings, those republicans who don't care about the poor and needy or democrats that are so much more concerned for their fellow man?
Fareed, You've written a letter to Mitt Romney. So send it to him, not your boss at CNN. "I could go on, Mitt" (show some respect- don't pretend that that line wasn't a little mechanism to disparage- grow up) Like you need to set the record straight? Everyone on this earth is talking to "set the record straight," so much so that you can't hear a word worth listening to. This letter/article is no different. Thanks for nothing. Everyone is now dumber from reading this. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
YOU surely sound dumber. You cannot take straight talk? too bad.
If anyone sounds dumber, it's the automatons on this website who hang on every utterance out of the mouths of the liberal pseudo intellectual elite.
Don't worry. We'll fix that in November.
You betcha!
If this is the future of America,
we are in big trouble........
.
If anyone sounds dumber, it's the automatons on this website who hang on every utterance out of the mouths of the liberal pseudo intellectual elite.
Don't worry. We'll fix that in November.
You betcha!
Parrot.
This guy (Fareed) does not talk anything good about India... He is from Pakistan (pakastani) with inherent grudge (jelousy) towrads India. He is just another racist America hater in a refined form..
Sorry, but Fareed is from India, so I really don't get what you're saying.
What??? How big of an idiot are you? He was born in Mumbai –> which is in India..do you even know 2+2=4?
He's an Indian muslim, which is why he's so clueless on everything. He doesn't understand Hindu India, America, or evern the wider Muslim world.
His articles are hilarious. If you want to find the truth, read this guy, turn 180 degrees and you'll find the right answers.
Fareed, you have made the mistake of confusing what Mitt says with what he intends to do should he get elected. He is currently saying whatever will appeal to the GOP voters, true or not. If he wins the nomination, he will then pander to the US public at large. If he then wins the Presidency, then he will govern. Don't confuse a politician's promises with reality.
In order to get votes, Mitt has gone so far right,
he has fallen off a cliff.
He may get the GOP nod, but he will never win the white house.
He has alienated the centrists, and the independants.
If he starts changing his stand to get those votes,
he will be ripped apart by Obama.
Oh! just trust him?
The only thing Obama has had success with is getting us deeper into debt with China. I would have re-thought this article before I wrote it.
As an obsequious America watches China manipulate and bully to become the new world power, one can only wonder how long it will take Chinese media to invite Fareed to move to Peking and become wealthy lecturing them on the limitations of their aspirations. One would hope that a man as world-wise as Fareed, having the ear of one Barack Hussein Obama, might council him to cut out with the bowing down to foreign leaders. But maybe I'm clinging to some bitter logic supposing that American Presidents should not bow to royalty or dictators.
*** bowing down to foreign leaders....
But it was OK when George Bush kissed all of the Saudi Royal family on the cheek,
and walk around holding hands with them.
You dont understand "customs", do you ?
Children should read more, and complain less.
Shoot the messenger! USA! USA!
Hey, Fareed..... you and the rest of the pseudo intellectual liberal tards are going to be pushed out of the way in November. Enough BS about green jobs and infrastructure.
Get this country's economy going again with a health dose of good old American Capitalism.
It's the reason you don't live in your backward country anymore.
Hey nameless ignorant....You and your stupid conservatives will be kicked out in November. Another BS talk that is full of hatred Cannot believe CNN does not filter such posts and I cant believe such idiots also have voting rights. It is better to deport such idiots out of US. to Africa or somewhere and rather have intelligent people immigrants here like Fareed.
Sure, Rajneesh...... whatever you say. Keep suckin' on that hooka pipe.
It makes you sound soooooo smart!
>
Lets hope ignorant people like you don't win the presidency otherwise America will be in real trouble.
**** liberal tards.
Your vocabulary is stunning !
Dear Zakaria:
We can overlook your lack of perception because your family hasn't been in the United States that long.
You ALSO need to wake up and define the difference between political rheteric and the real world. YOU also heard Obama say that Guantanamo Bay military prison would close when he became President- did it ????? So I say to you- get a little OJT. The ink is not even dry on your Doctorate and you are judging the world.
Another racist spews forth his real feelings.
Thats why I am against anything you and the GOP are for. American does not need your type of vidsion.
Good call Jeff – OB says idealistic things and then does whatever the shadow gvt says. I abore southern christian males, well come on its true I abore males all save one... and ob had him moved... which may turn out to be a good thing but it looked like an awful thing. lets just go on face value then. Ob wins and I'm a new canadian or somewhere like that...
I can't overlook it. Fareed is just another in a long line of liberals that think "everyone is equal" means there should never be a winner, only participation ribbons.
I know Indians that are first generations able live in America. They are grateful to be here, grateful for the opportunities that exist and love living in true economic freedom. Ole Zach should be shipped back home for a few years so he can truely appreciate what it is that America is all about.
The Republican party Romney represents seeks answers in a return to the past. One of the most powerful lessons in life is that we can never go back, we must keep moving forward. 21st century problems will need 21st century solutions.
I'm through with CNN...they drink WAY too much Obama Kool Aid. Utterly sickening.
absolutely true, they are owned by Ted Turner, a huge democrat fundraiser. its a joke that they pretend to be objective reporters
Too much libtard Kool Aid makes you sound like Fareed Zakaria, a pseudo intellectual.
The Republican Kool aid is poison.
Fareed: All I say in response to your excellent article is: "Here, Here." Mitt Romney seems to be prone to making out of touch remarks that only go to further divide this country. However, what can one do in a country that has been built on such divisive patterns clearly shown throughout its history. The elevation of some in America is still way of, because they have just dimly not learnt: "how to grasp it, and recognized the need: "to grasp it." I few if this country continues to carry forth this modus operandi, then we will endure further pain therein. Working together for Republicans and some Democrats is attainable, and if done with good faith for the overall good of the country, then America shall go forth and lead in a more right & proper manner. We have a tendency is this country to: "Talk the talk" as long as it suits us, but we fall flat down on our face, when we fail to "walk the walk"
I apologize for my grammatical errors. I have no excuse!
zakaria you are the biggest obama bootlicker on the planet. i am voting romney 100% and straight republican on everything. there are a whole lot of people doing the same. you and your multicultural spin doctor cronies have run this country into the ground
I'm with you, defff...... All hopey changey has done is double the poverty rate. And the drop in the unemployment rate isn't because employers added 200,000 jobs. That's ANEMIC. It dropped because people have quit looking for work.
And now we've got idiots defecating on public sidewalks in the name of socialism - and the President of the United States backs them?
I'm with the Republicans in November, too.
you make lots of noises, yet you bring no facts, no data, no true info of any kind to the table. you are just YET ANOTHER foolish conservative who can't accept facts
Thanks, Mrs. Romney. Now it's time to return to the nursing home for your Alzheimer meds.
Its your vote.
Waste it.
I have been saying this all along. If Mitt and the good old boys think they can go back to the
"gun slinging" and wave a big stick days of the Bush era they are hugely mistaken. This could force old Western alliances to breakup and forge new alliances to counter the US. Obama is one very smart leader who has used soft power with real teeth to increase America's influence in the world and to work in real partnership with many emerging economies and post adversarial countries. Under Obama, America has regained it's respect , internationally and it is about time that Mitt and other Americans show Obama the same respect. I am Canadian and I can tell you that I see the GOP
as very "unpatriotic." The economy will turn around and big time sooner rather than later. In ternationally, when Obama is re elected and hopefully the dems regain the house, a Palestinian will be created and Cuba will see the end of the embargi against it.
What can I say?
You're a complete idiot.
You certainly have your head in the sand!
The world for my grandchildren will be exciting, inclusive, and offer opportunity for cooperation we have never had before. The days of America forcing its own way are over - diplomacy, world education and health care will be great challenges, but the vast majority of the younger generation understand what is before them, and they are ready. America will bring so many up, and we will be shoulder to shoulder to protect and preserve this planet as a unit.
My name is period.
I know lotsa big words, like
libtard, and idiot.
Mom says she will teach me more big words,
but first i have to stop picking my nose.
I keep getting snot on the keyboard.
The Obama foreign policy has been tremendous. We have complete instability in the Middle East, we're on the brink of war with Iran, and in the streets of Beijing they sell shirts with Obama's face stating "Comrade". I'd call him Comrade too with the amount of debt we owe China. Fareed conveniently tosses out GDP growth, job growth, etc. in Brazil, China, Turkey...However, the notion of political stability in China as he tries to imply is a joke.
Obama has done nothing about Intellectual Property in China. He has done nothing to protect the interests of our businesses in China. All he has done is asked for more money and reduced any leverage we had. Don't give me the campaign speech State of the Union crap he said a couple of weeks ago.
Obama had 2 yrs to pass any legislation he chose. Name another president who had a 59-41 Senate and a House majority? Anybody? Bueller? To show for it we got a "shovel-ready" stimulus plan. A healthcare plan that allows the government to force people to purchase a service or pay a fine. Not mention the national debt has grown over $4T in 3 yrs. That feat took Bush 8 yrs to accomplish.
I'm not defending Romney, Bush, or any other candidate. However, to laud this president for his policies and performance is a joke.
i don't feel comfortable with Romney because he doesn't look like he is comfortable with himself. you can tell in the way he holds himself;always looking nervous because he knows he can't relate to the 99%.whenever he speaks he always comes across like he is trying to convince himself of the things he is saying while trying to convince us he really cares all of America;not just the 1%. we don't need someone who doesn't think before he speaks;who will be spending valuable time correcting what he mispoke instead of getting to the urgent matter at hand.
Great Job.
This college-educated, small business owner read your book. It is apparent many of the negative comments reflect that many have not read your book or failed to appreciate or understand the outstanding analysis you provide in this article, as well as in your book.
I will not speak ill of those who disagree with your analysis because I have learned not to debate ignorance, but to praise intelligence.
What do you do, own a book store ?
I call people like Mitt shiny people. All glitter no substance.
Mitt comes from a world that buys people, businesses and favorable opinions. Obama lives in the everchanging world and actively encourages disent and input. Mitt has lived in a dictator environment and thrived. Diplomacy is not his strong point. THe world is made up of many countries, nationalities, religions and individuals: we, as Americans must respect other's beliefs and cultures and accept the fact that we share this planet with those that are as determined as we are to see their policies and values become dominant.
Fareed...................it is a NEW world throughout the entire world, my friend. There have been many negative changes and very few positive changes. I am sure that Romney is aware of this. The entire world is headed in the wrong direction. Perhaps we are regressing back to the stone age? The middle east has seen the least of changes.....they are still living in the past due to religious intolerance!
The author mentions Turkey’s economy as an emerging power. Turkey is currently mired in solvency issues with the rest of Europe because of their federal over-spending. He totes China overtaking our economy and military spending as a good thing. Explain to me how this is something that Romney doesn’t understand, or a positive result from Obama’s foreign policy.
No takers??
**** He totes China overtaking our economy and military spending as a good thing.
He does ?
Guess i read a different story than you.
Well read this one and then let's discuss it.
Ever since the first Republican Presidential primaries, Mitt Romney has toured the country telling the American people that he can do a better job than President Obama in fixing the economy and creating American jobs. And Mitt has consistently stated that this administration's economic policies have failed. However Mitt Romney is yet to explain to the American people why President Obama's judgement in saving our Auto Industry has gotten the better part of his judgement in calling for the Big Three to crumble to the ground.
Furthermore, what I find ironic and hypocritical as a concerned American is that Mitt Romney continues to support the GOP and the very same ineffective, misguided and failed economic policies that have led to our economic downfall. Mitt Romney you're delusional and out of touch with reality.
So if 1 of the big 3 failed do you think the demand for automobiles would just disappear? The demand would transfer to other brands who would need to increase capacity to supply the demand. If that doesn't happen then the market never existed in the 1st place.
It is OK TO FAIL.
And you would be the first to scream about all of those people thrown out of jobs
and blame Obama.
I agree with you, man. Zombie is totally delusional.
GO GIANTS!!!!!
Fareed is following the same trend of CNN and Soledad Obrian. Under the pretense of knowing something, they blindly strike out at any republican candidate that may become the opponent of their great messiah, Barack Obama. Obama is running around the country telling people that Jesus is telling him to raise taxes on the rich and Fareed and his ignorant cohorts at CNN have not said a word about that. Obama has demanded that the Catholic church pay for abortions and contraception and not a peep about that on CNN. Don't worry these issues will dominate the general election. Obamas war on religion will be as big an issue as his war on success and wealth.
Mr. Zakaria,
May I ask why you refer to Mr. Romny as Mitt throughout the article, and went out of your way to use his name, even when it was unnecessary? I suspect it was a deliberate attempt on your part to show utter and flagrant disrespect to the likely 2012 Republican presidential candidate. I would be shocked if you ever, even once, addressed President Obama as 'Barry' in one of your articles. Content aside, your article's tone was insulting and unappreciated.
As for content, your claim that China's military spending will outpace that of the United States by 2025. I find this bit of datum HIGHLY dubious. I realize that you are writing ex cathedra (after a fashion), but you need to cite a source for a claim like that. GDP predictions go out that far, but long term economic trends are far more inexorable than military spending. Without a reputable source, such a claim by a reporter is best left ignored.
Lets see,
Bush policies are bad.
Romney has stated he will follow most of those policies.
Zakaria writes about that.
Romney is not bad, but Zakaria is ?
Nice twist.
Where in my post, exactly, did I critique Mr. Romney's proposed policies? My post was not about Mr. Romney's platform, nor about the validity of Mr. Zakaria's argument, but rather Mr. Zakaria's lack of professionalism in this article. Of course, you knew this (assuming you actually read my post). Nevertheless, you couldn't resist throwing in a jab at former President Bush, who had nothing to do with my comment whatsoever, because you were unable to refute my original argument.
could he crawl closer up...? ya think? Ob is a tool of the london banking pentagon MI6 CIA stock oil guys. (and I use that term loosely. Mitt is a used car salesman so of course he signs on, OB says get me out of here and Mitt, sure fella, no problem. Newt is a real person, Paul is a real person. real people don't kill people. used car salesmen...
They don't kill people? Really? "Now who's being naive, Kay?"
The most powerful country on earth? Is that any kind of goal? How about the best country on earth?
Do you have any examples of what the best country might look like??
Yeah, Australia,Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Demark are the first ones that come to mind.Then another tier with at least as many countries. And then a tier within which is found the US, not at the top by the way, and then a fourth tier nobody can like.
It would be nice if we could lead by example,
education instead of bombs.
Mr. Zakaria...yet AGAIN you have hit the nail squarely on the head. It is crucial to recognize global dynamics and to formulate a strategy for maintaining a strong position for America's future. Simply wanting to return to the halcyon days of yesteryear is wrongheaded and ultimately detrimental.
China's human rights violations against its own people are atrocious – people from mainland China are still not legally allowed to travel to Hong Kong or Taiwan for fear of political instability and are prohibited from leaving the country without obtaining permission from Beijing. Freedom of speech does not exist inside the country and the one child per couple policy has led to MILLIONS of aborted girls swaying the population to be predominately male – over 70% in some rural towns. China is not on the path to world power, but rather will implode in political instability when Beijing slowly loses control over the Southern and rural parts of the country as more and mode of its citizens become aware totalitarian regime they live under – remember Tienanmen Square?
Fareed That was a powerful opening ...I like President Obama for what he has been able achieve realizing that he wasted his 1st 2 years. I think Mitt cannot be written off for his election comments as you also know they are said to win votes.
And another example of liberal bias at CNN. Writing a book doesn't make you an expert. Do you really think you know more about the world than anyone else? Now, what if you were completely wrong? I mean, the country is softened to a point where we have lost the manufacturing industry and the ability to compete. That is why we have other countries in our rearview mirror. China's trajectory is going up while the US is going down. You really think diplomacy under Obama has been better? That too has failed, FAREED. He did his celebrity tour before the election 4 years ago and the world was captured by the words "hope" and "change." It was a great marketing campaign, but Obama made the situation worse. Even has unemployment numbers go down, millions of Americans who have stopped working have fallen off that statistic and are not counted. In all actuality, the unemployment continues to rise with large segments of Americans out of work. Some of Obama's policies ont he economy have had a bandaid effect. Those bandaids won't help for long.
**** You really think diplomacy under Obama has been better? That too has failed...
Example please ?
I agree with many here who say he's pandering to his base. In the general election, he'll pivot so hard to the left it will make your head spin. He's the very epitome of the phony, say anything to get votes political hack we've come to expect with no core values or vision. He simply wants a big toy all his money can't buy outright.
So Fareed is saying that we have a president that fundamentally believes that this next century is the post-american century and that it's singular dominance and it's unipolarity has ended. He uses China's economy as an example for this decline in American dominance. China's rise can be directly attributed to the amount of american debt they are holding. They are holding this debt because of the failed economic policies of Barack Obama. Obama has added about 5 trillion dollars to our debt in just 3 years. More than all other american presidents combined. If the U.S. is losing its dominance in the world economies it is a result of this trend toward a European Socialist society that is collasping at this very moment. Fareed is indeed a foreigner from India and nobody has benefited more from American excellence than India. He knows that and understands that but he just can't bring himself to believe that. Yes, Mitt Romney knows that also. That is why Mitt Romney wants to immediately after he is elected president have a discussion with our alledged allies and move toward making our trade agreements a little more balanced toward the American side.
*** Obama has added about 5 trillion dollars to our debt in just 3 years....
By putting George Bush's 2 credit card wars back on the books.
Why do Republicans always ignore this little fact ?
Agreed, I thought Fareed was above the usual blatant CNN Obama bias, and am so disappointed in all the Romney-bashing on today's show. I
Fareed is dead wrong. In a world of strong countries and strong leaders, obsequiousness and appeasement invites nothing but disdain. Obama could not even persuade China and Russia to sanction Syria. Strong leaders respect strong leaders, not leaders that lead from behind. In places like Vietnam, leading from behind attracted "friendly fire" - a lesson that Obama would do well to learn.
Neither is Mitt using chest-pounding triumphalism. He is advocating confidence over timidity, strength over weakness, and industriousness over dependence. Something Obama will never understand. Apparently neither will Fareed.
Attack, threaten, bomb, kill.
Yup, that gets us lots of respect.
We have the largest and most modern military on earth.
It should only be used to defend our shores.
Playing world cop is over.
I am Mitt Romney, and i approved this message.
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Fareed is dead wrong. In a world of strong countries and strong leaders, obsequiousness and appeasement invites nothing but disdain. Obama could not even persuade China and Russia to sanction Syria. Strong leaders respect strong leaders, not leaders that lead from behind. In places like Vietnam, leading from behind attracted "friendly fire" – a lesson that Obama would do well to learn.
Neither is Mitt using chest-pounding triumphalism. He is advocating confidence over timidity, strength over weakness, and industriousness over dependence. Something Obama will never understand. Apparently neither will Fareed.
How do you know what Mitt is pounding his chest about he changes the truth each day. And went the truth starts to catch up with him he'll just EASE THE RECORDS AND REPLACE ALL COMPUTERS. CAN ANY ONE SAY GOP NIXON
Clear choice in November. If you agree with the 1% vote GOP
If you agree with the 99% vote Democrat. A clear choice.....
Indeed, it is that simple. But I think there are 50% of the 99% that, thanks to Fox and their local churches, have been brainwashed into believing that the 1% are ordained and that supporting them through voting the GOP line, is the right, the American, thing to do.
Put a Republican back in the White House,
and hand the country over to the corporate elite.
Sure works better that way...I ditto the idea.
Fareed....could you be more condescending? Like many foreigners who come to this country later in life and then receive a liberal, Ivy League indoctrination into America, you'll never really get what this country is all about. People like you don't really like America, you don't really have roots here or a true and sincere sense of American patriotism...you root for India, and Afghanistan and other world powers to succeed and for us to stumble so you can flaunt a pseudo superior sense of your foreign heritage. Foffplease.
Spoken like a "real American"
Thanks
This view is like looking through the eyes of a bombastic right wing talk show host in the US. You completely missed the point. Are you uneducated? Fareed is the perfect example of American immigration success. He loves America. He sees the world as it is, not as any ideal would want it to be. America is great... his point was that it's naive to think we will stay great doing things the way we have in the past. Just like a great company our country needs to change and adapt. Obama sees that. Romney's words show he is clinging to an old ideal that will only fail in the new world. If you really believe in Freedom, freedog than wake up and realize the world is bigger than your plot of American land.
Having spent over 5 years of my life actually "working" and living on the economy in Europe, Australia and in Korea...I know exactly what I"m talking about. I realize Mr. Zakaria's condescending, elitist tone and un-american comments play well in your socialist elite circles..but not in the real American culture.
*** Like many foreigners who come to this country later in life and then receive a liberal, Ivy League indoctrination into America, you'll never really get what this country is all about. People like you don't really like America, you don't really have roots here or a true and sincere sense of American patriotism.
My grandfather immigrated to America from Sicily in 1933.
He learned English and became a citizen.
He died in 1943 fighting in Germany for AMERICA !!!!
You sir are an AZZHOLE !!!!!
Can you read? Obviously your grandfather actually was immersed in "authentic" american culture, not brainwashed by a bunch of elitists professors at Harvard...that being his first impression, his first indoctrination into our society/culture after being raised in India. Zakaria is a liberal american apologist who happens to be naturalized...but an American..pfftt...American's are NOT socialists who believe our time has passed..and actually are glad about it.
@Reality Check
No, the demands for automobiles would not disappear! But the REALITY is that in the middle of the worst economic crisis in America since the Great Depression, every job saved is a PLUS. Its that simple!
Mittens will have to do a great deal of explaining about his off-shore accounts and his13% tax rate and how they make him a better "patriot" than Obama. And his Mormonism may have won Nevada, but it will be a distinct liability in the general election.
Come on Fareed you can tell us. How much are you getting paid to work for Obama? I have seen article after article in support of Obama and his policies. Please don't try to pass off your "journalism" as objective, just tell us how much Obama is paying you.
Fareed continues to miss the point. He sees America in this great battle for supremacy with all the other nations in the world. He's one of the few Americas I've ever met who calls us the American Empire. He seems to live in this dream world where the great "American Empire" is somehow meeting it's end and all these other countries are just biting away at our heels. Just goes to show: The smartest folks out there are always the looniest.
You were obviously not reading the same article I was.
What's not true about that concept? American might won two World Wars, American ingenuity fostered the greatest post-war expansion in history, America compiled the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons and did it first, America went to the moon, the dollar is the the "world's choice" currency. We have led the way on civil rights, human rights, and environmental protection....I'd say the "American Empire" is as real turkey on Thanksgiving day or the Superbowl. Just goes to show, the ones that are the smartest ARE the smartest.
That Johnn is outstanding!
Nice Johnn.
When you take the approach ZF takes of course that's the way to see it. To hell with that crap, America should be the greatest country on the planet but we have this albatros around our neck called lazy people that want handouts. America was great when its people worked hard for something. The more we "occupy" the worse this country gets. It's not a rise by others but a decline by lazy assed people led by liberals.
Hard to work when the rich Republicans have shipped all of our jobs overseas.
Fareed has no credibility. Addressing Mitt Romney as "Mitt" is rude and extremely unprofessional. We know that you support Obama and want to do everything possible to help him get re-elected. But you should do this on your own time not on a so-called "news" channel. Otherwise, CNN should just be called pro-Obama news. That way, you won't need to pretend anymore.
**** Funny.
--Pat
Fareed has no credibility. Addressing Mitt Romney as "Mitt" is rude and extremely unprofessional. We know that you support Obama and want to do everything possible to help him get re-elected
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That would be "President Obama" right ?
Why would a guy who made his millions stealing pensions and jobs from middle class working people, SUDDENLY, start "defending the middle class"? His "gaffe's" tell the REAL story. They aren't "gaffes's" at all. They're the way this guy really thinks. He is a creature of the top 1%. Everything he says has to be viewed in that light. If he's elected, he and the Republicans in Congress will:
- Eliminate the 15% capital gains tax...so..the Rich will pay NOTHING in income tax.
- Approve a "Flat tax" so the tax burden will be shifted from the "top" to the "bottom" classes.
- Social Security will be gutted for the under 55's. Benefits will HAVE to decrease for the above 55's.
- Medicare will be gutted for the under 55's. Benefits will HAVE to decrease for the above 55's.
- Obama care will be eliminated. The Insurance companies will, AGAIN, determine whether you're "insurable" or not
- War with Iran will be initiated. ANOTHER WAR! This time with Russia and China siding with Iran?
- The Rich will get Super Rich and will begin deciding what's best for you.
- The Poor will get DESPERATELY poor.The poverty rate will go from 15% to 30%.
THINK ABOUT IT!
Drinking the kool-aid I see. Those with money are the best hope this country has. They should be led by someone whoose policies held drive the economy up, not own. Simple economics which your president lacks. A change is needed as soon as possible to stop the dwnturn.
Bill, ask any economist. The widening divide of rich and poor is bad for the country and bad for the economy. Read a little. It helps your knowledge base.
Bill, i think you drank the kool aid.
The united states government is not in the business of making money.
Its NON PROFIT.
It doesnt work the same way a business does.
Spain didn't realize they were no longer THE world's super power until well after their abortive naval exercise of 1588. France thought they had inherited the mantle but couldn't understand why their military was somewhat less than successful after they exiled the Corsican. The Battle of Sedan proved they were no longer THE superpower. Spain finally realized they were unimportant in the scheme of the world after their defeat at our hands in the war started by the Newspapers. England took until Hiroshima to realize that we had outpaced it as THE superpower. Now, the problem is the shift is not from war (although it could be) but because a larger portion of our debt is being held by Asian nations. The 20th Century was the American Century (as declared by Teddy Roosevelt). The 21st isn't shaping up to be very good for us.
Willard needs to take a better look at history over a long term before he attempts to defend an indefensible position, especially with the Chicken Hawks that will insist that we throw our military where it is neither wanted nor needed.
Mr. Romney has decided to surround himself with the same misguided but fervent Neo-Con Ideologues that were part of the Advisers to GW... Should he win the Presidential election (and right now, from where I sit, I don't see it happening), he will depend even more on them to guide him in Foreign Affairs. I have no doubt he would appoint someone who thinks like Cheney as his VP and someone like Rumsfeld as his Estate Dept. Head... Domestically, He will have Zero Empathy for the Middle Class. As for the Poor, they will become essentially invisible to him during his Administration. Incidentally, I'm an Independent. I despise both Parties equally, so don't pin me as a Liberal.
Fareed, makes a fair but unbalanced assessment. Mitt is doing what all politicians do, they maximize vote count by honing a message that speaks to the basic understanding of their audience. Here in lies the problem, we as voters don't do enough to understand our government and our place in the world (I am as much to blame as the next). We need to realize that we are decades past the time when listening to debates and political ads will provide the understanding we need to make a balanced voting decision. It is our responsibility to ourselves and our children to learn more about our government and the candidates that profess a need to do their "civic duty" or we risk leaving the future to those that know more and stand to gain at our expense. So Fareed, its not just Mitt who doesn't get it.
If you close your eyes and just listen to the Republican debates, what they advocate is like time travel back to the mid-90's. Legislating morality is back, being the world's police force is back, our right to interfere in any nation is back, deregulation cures all ills is back, ....
I see no sign that they've learned anything from the last 20 years.
Although Romney scares me LESS than the simpleboys Gingrich and Santorum, he seems so easily swayed on every subject, and so willing to pander endlessly, that we would always have to wonder who is pulling his strings.
OBAMA 2012!
In his program today, Zakaria interviewed the minister from Singapore. One important thing that that nation-state emphasizes for its citizens is a good education. Imagine! No bubbas. People who can read, write, and count. And know many languages (hey, even French is not a detriment!) .
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” America’s true wealth is its ideals. When some folks chose to follow an ideal of American exceptionalism that is counter to the very principles on which the country was founded. It seems that at least some Americans are living in some strange twilight zone rather than the America intended by George Washington and the founders. America wins, when its basic ideals such as truth & justice prevail everywhere and hard work is what it takes to get ahead no matter where one is born or what family or country one is born in to.
In addition, exceptionalism is dangerous because it fosters the delusion that we have nothing to learn from the other nations and that we are incapable of making serious mistakes if we just follow our core values. Both can lead to serious policy blunders.
I guess it depends on how you define America’s core values. Truth, justice . . . ? Making decisions (and choosing leaders) based on fairness, justice, love, courage, selflessness, shared sacrifice, humility, etc. is generally going to work out a lot better than making decisions or building relationships based on skewed ideals, hypocrisy, selfishness, hatred, fear, selfishness, vanity, etc. In first case one is able to make clear decisions based on reality. In the second case one is very likely to get it wrong with a very skewed version of reality because in that case folks tend to see and understand only what they want to see, rather than what really is, and consequently make bad decisions based on skewed understanding. In a world where America operates with the first set of values, America can continue to lead the world (and frankly it wouldn’t matter that much if America was actually leading or not, since our ideals would have won out).
Zakaria's only goal in writing is to enhance Obama's chances of reelection. There is no intent to inform. Everything is spun to make Obama look good and Republicans look bad.
The Republicans don't need Zakaria's help on that, they're doing fine all by themselves.
Listening to Mitt Romeny speak on foreign policy makes me wince. It is heartbreaking to hear someone that could be the leader of the free world talk so simplistically about a world that is more complex than it has ever been.
Have we learned nothing after GW Bush?
I am speculating, but I believe that Mitt Romney's drive to the Presidency is the need to avenge his father's failures in the 1968 Presidential campaign.
Wikipedia: "Life magazine wrote that [George] Romney "manages to turn self-expression into a positive ordeal" and that he was no different in private: "nobody can sound more like the public George Romney than the real George Romney let loose to ramble, inevitably away from the point and toward some distant moral precept." The perception grew that Romney was gaffe-prone and an oaf..." George Romney was widely ridiculed in particar for his remark that he had been 'brainwashed' by arguments in favor of the Vietnam war.
I think that Mitt Romney, who was an impressionable 21 when his father experienced that humiliating loss to Richard Nixon, wants nothing more than to avenge the family honor. Furthermore, I believe that if Mitt is ever elected and inaugurated, he will not have in his mind a plan of action. I think Mitt just wants to be ELECTED, but he is not so interested in BEING the President.
Just my opinion.
Well said and well-written. The average American does not leave the USA much, and when they do, they become a tourist to all those world places ready to entertain them. I travel often, and I am always seeing such progress between visits to areas I visit off the tourist map. People are better fed, thinking more for themselves, and are rising each and every day to a better quality of life.
Good analysis, liked it.
Zakaria is a very smart guy and very well read. I always learn a lot from his articles.
Their is only one super power and it's each and everyone of us. We have a choice in life to either get along with each in a peaceful way or commit to hate and destroy ourselves. We have to grow up a species and focus on the betterment of ourselves and the world we live in.
My former countryman Mr.Zakaria flaunts his book "The Post-American World" as though it's the GREATEST revelation to naive & gullible Americans.
There's a very well thought-out analysis by David M Dougherty (on Amazon) of Mr.Zakaria's book which depicts Mr.Zakaria's work as utterly superficial & shallow, something that I have myself said many many times.
Yes, there are plenty of good reviews too, but anyone with a good knowledge of current affairs can see that those reviews are from people with RUDIMENTARY KNOWLEDGE of world affairs.
CHECK IT OUT
Amit-Atlanta-USA
Zack, we know this is job security for you, but the rest of us are just waiting for the day willard goes away.
What a fool you are Zacharia to think that it is a new World. It is just like a poker game, the winning hands move, the cards change, sometimes the players even change. Underneath, it is the same old game just as it is with the World.
Those who are part of the "enlightened" elites think they know best and that everyone should agree with their new World order philosophy. Examine a poker game, observe the behaviors when a loser suddenly becomes a winner and vice versa. Its human nature and not you, Obama, or even evolution will change it.
Zakakra's piece touches on and revels something that most Americans politicians still find problems knowing and understanding – that they are the most ignorant group people on earth. As someone born in West Africa, lived in Europe and later became a U.S. citizens, I questioned the reasoning behind the empty thought process of most American politicians – and this is clearly represented by Mitt Romney's nakedly blindness that the United States is not the world. I am a Republican, but to listen to a socalled Republican frontrunner not knowing how the world works noadays is laughable.
Does Mitt Romney know that even the smallest village in Africa and the tiny town in South East Asia no longer see themselves as people on the sidelines? For Mitt Romney to talk about America's exceptionalism makes him appear like a big fool to me. Every country is exceptional – the Russian think the same. It is just foolish and only fools think this way. The best U.S. president is one that promotes globalization and global leadership. Even my uneducated and poor grand mother in Africa thinks any U.S. presidential candidate that other countries not exceptional, only the U.S. is, is a big fool.
Vote for Gingrich! He is morally less inferior than Romney or Paul! Go Newt.
por favor, mr. skinny, this is to you:
his is not the question, whether or not America has declined and the rest of the world has come up...the question is who is disseminating such an "idea"? I think a foreigner, I think it has to do with people such as Zakaria, who with the CFR, has tried for some time now to paint a "Declining" picture of America. We are not the one's in DECLINE. It is the mentality of theses so called New Americans, who have just come to our shores, but has no idea what being American is. It's called......get ready....FREEDOM!!! .....FREEDOM KEEPS AMERICA STRONG, NOT THE OUT PUT OF DETROIT.
You think your free???? Ha Ha Ha....Your another fool.......You are a piece of property owned by the US Govt
I dont think Zakaria is promoting our decline,
but warning us.
When you talk about freedom keeping us strong, what freedom are you talking about ?
Protection from our enemies ? Thats good with me.
My right to assemble and protest my government without going to jail ?
Thats good with me.
But when you tell somebody who they can marry,
you are stepping on freedom.
Not so good with me.
Who is telling others who they can marry? Some people might have a different definition of marriage, but no one is preventing others from getting married. You know what we should do? We should get together as a democracy and vote over what we think the definition should be, just like we do with other disagreements in our country. Oh wait, we did that in California and we decided to keep it the way it has been for centuries. Next topic.
his is not the question, whether or not America has declined and the rest of the world has come up...the question is who is disseminating such an "idea"? I think a foreigner, I think it has to do with people such as Zakaria, who with the CFR, has tried for some time now to paint a "Declining" picture of America. We are not the one's in DECLINE. It is the mentality of theses so called New Americans, who have just come to our shores, but has no idea what being American is. It's called......get ready....FREEDOM!!! .....FREEDOM KEEPS AMERICA STRONG, NOT THE OUT PUT OF DETROIT.
Let me guess. You're white, bald, 65, and probably have a gun, or two. Am I right James?
NO, im 35, mexican and got friggin 10 kids you idiot....of course im white but everything else is wrong...you would think a white person lives in america since we are the majority.
O_o angry white trash. Peace out.
James. America is not a football team.
I hate friggin football....go read a book,,,why don't you start with say hmmmm...."THE WORLDLY PHILOSOPHERS"....IT TELLS EXACTLY WHAT THE ELITE THINKS OF YOUR IGNORANCE.
Yup, angry white republican.
James
I hate friggin football....go read a book,,,why don't you start with say hmmmm...."THE WORLDLY PHILOSOPHERS"....IT TELLS EXACTLY WHAT THE ELITE THINKS OF YOUR IGNORANCE.
The article is quite correct. The nature of the world has transformed None of the Republicans grasp it yet. I doubt they will even run a close second to Obama, especially if the economy continues to rebound. What we now need is a new
generation of politicans who understand America's role in the new world. America will never be weak and she will never tolerate attacks on her allies. But we can no longer afford to be the watchdog of the world. It's time for Russia and China to do some deep thinking. The alternative will be a world power vacuum and chaos.
MIT just got sccccccccchhhhooooooollled!!! Bad!
YOU PEOPLE ARE SO LOST....NEWT THIS MITT THAT...you have no balls.
My balls are size of your mom's boobs. Now you decide how big they are.
oK, I'LL TAKE THAT ONE. But, just go back to your sony playstation or whatever you play on and leave the thinking to the big boys....
Mr Zacharia, I find you to be so partisan that I can no longer consider you a credible source of information.
Lisa, you are the first sane person to post something here.
Democrat, Republic, partisian, etc. etc. You can't trust anyone so why don't we all just lay down and die?
Zakakra's piece touches on and reveals something that most Americans politicians still find problems knowing and understanding – that they are the most ignorant group of people on earth. As someone born in West Africa, lived in Europe and later became a U.S. citizens, I question the reasoning behind the empty thought process of most American politicians – and this is clearly represented by Mitt Romney's nakedly blindness that the United States is not in the world. I am a Republican, but to listen to a socalled Republican frontrunner not knowing how the world works nowadays is laughable.
Does Mitt Romney know that even the smallest village in Africa and the tiny town in South East Asia no longer see themselves as people on the sidelines? For Mitt Romney to talk about America's exceptionalism makes him appear like a big fool to me. Every country is exceptional – the Russian think the same. It is just foolish and only fools think this way. The best U.S. president is one that promotes globalization and global leadership. Even my uneducated and poor grand mother in Africa thinks any U.S. presidential candidate that thinks other countries are not exceptional, only the U.S. is, is a big fool.
The U.S. cannot impose global values as it used to. Those days are gone. To do would be to the detriment of the United States. There are places where the U.S. is not considered or respected. A bully is respected in the midst of others. The U.S. can only gain respect through cooperation and promotion of good values and leadership – not bullying. Every country has internet and other advantages which should Romney that we live in an age of technology and the global perspective its brings. 10 to 15 years from now, media in other countries might even be more admired and respected than the U.S. media. So where will Mitt be?
Money making is Mitt's area and we respect that – but to talk about diplomacy and internationalism when he knows nothing about it just makes him look ignorant more and more. Please Mitt, save the Republican party a shame by talking about the economy and forget about internationalism – because doing so would not just make look stupid to my grand mother in Africa, but to all villages around the world.
and we don't know that you just cut and pasted that whole diatribe that you just posted, This is what i mean, by people born in another country trying to explain things in A COUNTRY WHERE FREEDOM IS UNDERSTOOD TO BE THE NORM.
Fareed has nailed it regarding why some Americans hate Obama so much. It's not racism, although there are the white supremists that cackle with glee and join in. Those who hate Obama hate him because he has changed the path of our interactions with other nations. Pres. Bush cannot leave our country's shores w/o facing arrest in many other countries of the world because of his old-style WWII mentality regarding the superiority of America. In a matter of seconds any citizen in almost any country in the world can communicate via the Internet. In a matter of hours we can travel through the air to anywhere on the planet. A long time ago, when I was in grade school, I remember a teacher telling our class that the world was shrinking. Today her words ring truer than ever. America needs to find her new place in this ever smaller world. Obama is leading us in that direction and it's working. Slowly but surely wins the race. Republicans, like Romney, are a voice for those Americans who cannot accept the truth that America is no longer the big cheese it once was. It's impossible for some people to change.
OK, let me make this real clear so that all may understand...ZAkaria, belongs to the CFR...ding ding ding...do we know what that means? He is a controlled Hack!!!
THIS GUY IS A FOREIGNER WHO DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU, AMERICANS.
Your comment is further proof that there are many Americans who don't trust anyone other than those who were born and raised here with absolutely no understanding of people in the rest of the world.
Another screaming Republican, using caps to underscore his anger. Another example of cultural iliteracy.
We all live on the same planet James.
Too many people like you, cant seem to grasp that.
I agree. My reply below.
Conservatives/republicans are afraid of change.
Its not possible to go back.
That line about doing the same thing over and over
and expecting a different result, doesnt work.
Time to move forward.
Changes like the tripling of the deficit, Iran with nukes, China with a larger military than ours, the federal government controlling our healthcare? These are changes we can do without.
It's a new world, Fareed! Welcome to America and to a new start!
@Reality Check
You're an idiot! First and foremost for you to question President Obama's foreign policy in dealing with the political upheaval in the Arab Spring is pointless and irrational. What's happening in the Arab Spring is a revolving political revolution and as President of the United States, the last thing that President Obama would want to do is to rush and intervene without allowing these conflicts to play out where the chances for a peaceful resolution can be met and the situation not worsened. Furthermore, how dare you judge or question the time frame in which this administration is taking to help to defuse conflicts that started just a few months ago when on the other hand, your leader GWB left this administration with two decade long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? So what was the mission and the end game in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Furthermore, for you to try to compare GWB on fiscal responsibility and deficit reduction with President Obama is totally outrageous and ludicrous! First and foremost, the final cost of the Iraqi war is 4 trillion dollars and the combined cost of the Iraq and Afghan wars by the projected end of the Afghan conflict is projected to be 6 trillion dollars. I believe you mentioned something about China. So is China going to cover the difference here? And while you tried to accuse President Obama of inflating the national deficit, let me remind you that the $787 billion stimulus package was passed out of NECESSITY to stabilize the economic crisis President Obama inherited and subsequently prevent our economy from slipping into a catastrophic depression. Just imagine what the unemployment rate would have been without passage of this package. Furthermore, you can google "The Stimulus Plan: How to Spend $787 Billion -The New York Times" and decide for yourself if this bill was wasteful spending.
Finally, as far as the healthcare legislation is concerned, I'm not much of a fan of the mandate requiring or forcing Americans to buy health insurance but I personally believe that it is more worthwhile to be forced to buy health insurance that's going to save your life as opposed to being forced into an illegitimate Iraqi or other foreign war that's going to take your life. Subsequently, I personally believe that a healthier America is simply a stronger America. Furthermore, speaking about deficit reduction and fiscal responsibility, apart from making health insurance more affordable for an additional 30 million Americans, this legislation is also geared towards reducing our national deficit by $270 billion over the next decade. Now, that's fiscal responsibility!
I agreed with most of what you wrote, until I got to the part about the health care mandate. There is only one way for our health care system to survive: EVERYBODY has to participate in it so that the cost is spread out over the largest possible population, including young healthy people, too. It is an old Republican idea that people take responsibility for the cost of their own health care. The mandate does that, just as the mandate for car insurance helped keep auto insurance premiums down. While the auto insurance is mandated by the states, it is the identical principle at work. Everybody, at one point or another in their life, will have to go to a doctor or be hospitalized. Very few people go through life without an injury or illness, or drive a car without being involved in minor mishaps. By requiring everybody to take personal responsibility for their health care, we keep people from relying on Emergency Rooms for routine care which is the most costly in the world. Your medical insurance premiums are lower if you are part of a large group. The Affordable Care Act creates the largest group in the country. When the exchanges begin to operate, small businesses and individuals will be able to take advantage of the lower rates of larger groups. The mandate is the right thing to do for the entire country. Some individuals may oppose it on principle, but they're ignoring its benefits.
Correct. The Republican opposition to the individual mandate is a new phenomenon and is almost entirely on political strategy rather than ideology. The genuine component, the libertarian factions of the Tea Party, have always been a small minority of Americans. The completely dishonest part of the Republican position is that in order to square the 'no individual mandate' with 'personal responsibility' that must acknowledge that this means actually allowing people to die who opted not to buy insurance and can't pay for care. They know that politically, that won't sell, so they stick with irrational arguments and euphemisms that "market forces" will drive the private sector to care for everyone. Total bunk and they know it.
Obama was against the health care mandate, before he was for it....
Obama wanted universal, single-payer health care. Republicans said no. Then Obama wanted the mandate with a public option. Republicans said no. No matter what Obama wanted, the answer was no. And it still is no, with every Republican candidate promising to repeal "Obamacare", which none of would have the power to do in the first place.
Well put.
The only thing you got wrong was...........
Patriots 23
Giants 20
Enjoy the game.
Dave
Obama was against the health care mandate, before he was for it....
I seem to remember several debates between Obam and Hillary Clinton
who were both for health care.
Nice try.
Fareed – don't waste your breath explaining anything to romney – he is a cone head.
Many in this country still haven't accepted racial integration after 40+ years or a future white" minority in 10 years. What is the chance they will accept the new world of political equals that is emerging before our eyes? The term "ostrich" comes to mind.
You people, who are always trying to lable the white people who have labeled you for so long, are going to realize some day that what you are saying is completely wrong....YOU COME TO AMERICA TO BE FREE, NOT ELECT THE NEXT DICTATOR OF THE COUNTRY.
I am not even sure what he is ranting about anymore.
Its clear that he dont like forrynurs.
As far as I am concerned, I feel Obama is doing just fine. He told us that it would take time to change everything around and in no way could it happen overnight, It is going to continue to take time, people in America want things yesterday, well that is not reality. It takes all of us to pitch in and that includes Congress. Congress road blocks everything, so just what do you expect.
I just have one question, why do you speak as if everything that damned television says is the truth?
If we could get a Dem majority that would be great.
I think it is interesting how much we hear about the Republicans blocking Obama. Democrats find it so easy to forget that they had a majority for 2 years and did nothing except pass a wildly unpopular healthcare bill and increase the deficit the likes of which even Bush would be amazed.
@Nhinson
Very well stated!
There is no way to know what Mitt Romney would actually do if he did win the election in November. The man is a cypher. A political chameleon. An Olympic-class flip-flopper whose stand on issues morphs right before you eyes. Eight years ago, he was a moderate who supported social justice. Today, he is appealing to extreme, anti-government voters who are largely illiterate about world affairs and sound economic principles. One cannot even tell if Romney understands what is happening in the world around him because he lies relentlessly about the President's policies and achievements. The only reason Mitt Romney is in the frontrunner position today is because the Republican establishment thinks he can beat Obama. It doesn't matter that they know he can't be trusted. All that they care about is getting that black man out of the White House at any cost. If the country's economy and world standing are part of the price for achieving that objective, so be it. This is probably one of the few things that Mitt Romney understands, so he is relishing his moment. The right-wing evangelicals in the Republican base would rather elect a Mormon whom they suspect is a moderate than a Barak Obama. ANYONE, no matter how inept and lacking convictions, would be better.
I guess you missed the Obama flip-flops, he is right up there with Romney....
Obama flip flops ?
The only thing i can see he didnt get down was gitmo.
That was blocked by the Republicans.
Obama never flip-flopped. Many of the things he promised to do, including closing Gitmo, were blocked by Republicans in Congress. They have been engineering the failure of the Obama administration by saying "no" to just about everything he has proposed OR supported AND YOU KNOW IT. As far as Gitmo is concerned, the Republicans said "sure. Go ahead and close Gitmo. But you can't bring any of the detainees onto American soil for trial." I would challenge you or anybody else to identify a single genuine "flip-slop" by this president that wasn't coerced by an obstructive Republican Congress.
@KatR
Very well stated!
I agree with the article. It's old thinking that the US will always dominate the world. We'll have equal and larger partners. Some people will not admit this, but the writing is well on the wall. In fact, we help create that fact (outsourcing jobs/technology). Its a simple equation of scale. Europe is and has been a larger economy than ours for decades. They are, however, not tightly united so we dominate. China is a much different story. More than twice the size of Europe and about 4x our size, they are highly centralized and can dominate. Economically and militarily. At some point in time. We are not in permanent decline yet. Our will determines our fate. Doing our best is the best we can do. I hope for this. (US born American)
Imagine that! Zakaria thinks Obama is an enlightened President. Before the 2008 US Presidential election, Zakaria endorsed Barack Obama on his CNN program.[25] In May 2011 The New York Times reported that President Obama "has sounded out" Zakaria concerning Middle East issues in meetings with him. Of course Zakaria is going to spin for Obama, in an intellectual sort of way. He is nothing more than another Obama hack is disguise.
It is a fact that China and other countries have risen a lot relative to the West, but US is still the foremost military, industrial and economic power. Instead of using these powers to lead, to influence and mediate world affairs, the US has decided to become one of the boys among G20, given up its role as world leader.
The Arab world does not trust the US anymore for their defense. Iran keep putting up its middle fingers at the US despite all the warnings. Russia and China are not working with the US to deal with Iran. The US has no influence in EU and Merkel is not listenting to US's advise in dealing with its financial crisis. The US has no influence in the Copehagan Climate conference. The US has no influence on Israel and the PLO in their negotiations. Despite all the rhetorics, the US did not offer any guidance or help to the many Arab Springs demonstrations. The most potent use of US military power is its use of drones after international terrorist leaders.
During previous Administrations, the US power might be hated, but it is feared and respected. Now it is hated, but not feared and respected.
Despite what Fareed says about US power, it has lost its influences around the world, and this strategy is pursued intenationally by it leader.
We have a bad habit in this country of listening to politicians who promise us we can be the people we dream of being. This was one of George Bush's greatest political strengthens. This is no longer the 40s, 50s or even the 60s. We are a strong country both militarily and economically. Mr. Zakaria makes an excellent point. The only way we are now going to be the people we dream of being, is if the rest of the world goes backwards. We now need to be a leading nation among other leading nations. The world has changed. Beware of the politician who promises to make it "like it was". He or she is looking only for your vote by promising you a world that no longer exists. It is like parents with grown children. You have to adjust your relationship to be able to live with other adults.
Mr. Zakaria,
As of your writting "In 1990, China represented 2% of global gross domestic product. It has quadrupled, to 8%, and it's rising. By most estimates, China's economy will become the world's largest between 2016 and 2018. And this is not simply an economic story. China's military capacity and reach are also expanding. Beijing's defense spending is likely to surpass America's by 2025.", I would like to post a quick comment.
In my opinion, you are very subjectively optimistic about China situation. Don't forget that the China growth over the past decade is purely based on almost-a-free resource: over 1 billion humans slaved by the Central Government and its policy!
Such condition won't be continued for very long, especially in a country like China where basic universal human rights and environment has been totally ignored and used as a cost of the growth.
21st century absolutely still belongs to any country who consistently advocates for the universal values such as: freedom, democracy, human rights. The new World Order of 21st century still absolutely requires such a leading country, and the US won't be able to refuse its endured-honored obligation.
Best regards,
Nguyen, Hiep
While it's certainly possible that China will stumble, one thing they have that may reduce the chances of mass unrest is a national culture defined by the collective, instead of the individual. This is concept is an anathema to most Americans and our tradition of individualism. I certainly wouldn't want to be part of such a society, but it has its value when organizing mass national sacrifice in the name of national greatness.
I kinda hope Barack Hussien Obama will be re-enthroned, even though I know how dangerous he is. His growing boldness in his efforts to destabilize the economy, promote Iranian jihadists, and neuter religious people in the U.S, will land him in Federal Prison during a second term. He thinks he is a god king, destined to bring a secular caliphate to North America, but this crime spree will end in Federal court.
Whoa! Way too much FOX News in your diet, buddy.
Federal Prison?!? Congrats, you can share the short bus with Left-wingnuts who are still crying that Bush isn't behind bars. If delusion and anger get you out of bed in the morning and off to work, I suppose it's not all bad.
I warned you about the bad acid.
You didnt listen.
The fact that Zakaria has his own CNN show is sad. How stupid do they think we are....Zakaria is nothing but an Obama plant....he's there to "steer" the political debate towards the left wing whilst maintaining some semblence of independence. When will Americans demand a truly independent media? That means no former Clinton or Bush officials, no former campaign managers, no Karl Roves, no Chris Matthews, and no James Carvilles.
Zakaria, who has a PhD in history from Harvard, is one of the most insightful, well-informed Journalists on the planet. Clearly, he is functioning way above your level. The difference between an ideologue like you and a pragmatist like Zakaria is that he doesn't try to reconfigure reality to match an inflexible, dogmatic and routinely inaccurate assessment of world events. The heads of state whom he has interviewed all say this about him. So your inability to appreciate his value only reveals your own ignorance.
Fareed Zakaria is not a journalist – he gives his opinion. He is also an admitted Obama supporter who claimed he has advised the President in face to face meetings, he later back tracked on that claim a little....
John, John, John:
We've had many leaders with Ivy League credentials. George W. Bush graduated from Yale and from Harvard Business School. Are you ready to testify to his brilliance? How about Newt Gingrich? Also a highly educated man. So Zakaria's well-informed...according to who? Insightful....according to who? Are you familiar with the term, groupthink? Groupthink is how scores of highly-educated people can give Arafat the Nobel Peace Prize, while ignoring Reagan's contributions.
Zakaria is obviously an intelligent guy, but that doesn't mean he's unbiased or independent. His background and associations indicate a solidly left wing bent.
Daves, Obviously Mr. Zakaria is giving is viewpoint. Obviously it's an opinion. However, it's an opinion based on a foundation, an argument, a case. Instead of simply stating the obvious, how about an alternative analysis?
Only an idiot would compare Fareed Zakaria's intellect to George W. Bush's or Mitt Romney's. Romney has two degrees from Harvard and I would suggest that he is the dumbest educated person on Earth. Zakaria is a commentator AND journalist, as he reports on events around the world AND offers his assessment of those events. He brings a global perspective and keen mind to his programs. Of course, if you view the world through a red-tinted political prism, then I can see how most of the things he says would stick in your craw or just go right over your head.
How about an actual intellectual counter-argument. All you people offer is insults, but no alternatives. Silly and sad. I suppose the appropriate counter argument to your type is "I know you are, but what am I?"
There were no insults in my post. I simply stated my opinion that Zakaria is not independent or unbiased as CNN would have us believe.
But David, he is smarter than you.
Mr. Mittens has stated he wants a military so powerful the rest of the world will cower in fear and NEVER think to rise a finger against us. Yea, we've seen from Dicky and Bushy that really works well. Gingrich is right about one thing, that Romney is full of pious bologna.
Fareed, nice diatribe... anyone could deduce the logic you used (spin doctor) except, you failed to point out that on all other fronts (except recent political failure at the executive level) America is still looked at as the leader in technologies, music, film, FREE SOCIETY... and countless other things not provided in socialistic, communist or dictator countries. The illusion IS the rise of the rest of the world, let them rise... but mark their movement.... if they so much as pretend they will influence the way we live, I know you are sadly mistaken... makes for good political rhetoric, especially when you're rooting for Obama to finish off the US in the next four years. PS... not if the intellectuals can change it!
@lisa,N.J.
And that fat governor of yours? Is he really bi-partisan? He says all citizens of your state must make a sacrifice in these hard economic times while he slashed programs for the poor and refuses to tax the millionaires in your state. Then to add insult to injury, last summer he had the nerve tp fly in one of the state's funded helicopters to his son's baseball game. That trip cost your state $4000 and another $2000 to remove all the seats so his fat behind could get into the helicopter. Think your fat governor is bi-partisan?
Mr Zakaria-You belong to CNN-and I think you and your counter parts should use the real name for your
network RON ( Re-elect Obama Network)
Don't blame ol' mutt for speaking 'hillbilly' ..it's all the majority of the GOP can comprehend
I believe Mitt when he says that he's not worried about the poor and that the wealthy are doing just fine and that's about it. The say that truth is the first casualty of war and to that you can add politics. Do any of these guys have a shred of integrity or regard for the truth?
Everyone knows that the USA needs an adversary. How could it justify its high levels of military spending if it didn't hype up the threat. But the people who would like to see America killed are in the middle east not china.
pmcdonald
Everyone knows that the USA needs an adversary.
We had to replace the Soviet Union.
The CIA gave us Bin Laden.
President Obama's foreign policies reflect vision, diplomacy, and...intelligence. If we leave it to the GOP most problems in the world would be solved militarily, that is just their fascination, they love wars.
The U.S. is finally again respected in the world after Bush pretty much managed to allieanate most countries during his horrible administration.
Obama 2012!
Mitt isnt out of touch, or clueless. he just cant say what he really feels. He was actually a very liberal gov. of mass. His problem is the pandering. He says whatever the particular group he is talking to at the moment wants to hear. I'm thinking that if he somehow got to be president, hed be VERY much like Obama on the economic side, cause in private he knows what works.
So ,Romney says one thing , but means another. That is called lying , and he is good at that !
@David
GWB never did graduate from Yale and Harvard! He bought his degrees just the way he and brother Jeb rigged and bought the 2000 general election. Have you ever seen a graduate of Harvard or Yale who couldn't speak?
I miss hearing him murder "nookcalur"
Well wirtten, Fareed. With twenty one years of residing and working in foreign countires, the one thing that has become abundantly clear to me is that emerging nations are grateful for our example and past assistance to help them become emerging nations.
However, they are no longer "children" and are stepping out on their own, albeit not with the exact American problem solving set. Instead of being the dominating authority figure, The USA must be the supportive parent, even when it means that the "children" might choose a different "career path".
The good lessons will stick, and hopefully the negative examples the USA has committed will instruct them how avoid our past mistakes. As is oft happening with my (Baby Boomer) generation, our children are now the parents holding the hands of teetering Baby Boomers as we fail to keep up with the realities of the 21st century.
This is an excellent commentary. I noticed however , the inexcusable bigotry that still exists among the public. On behalf of the people who thinks like I do , my apology Mr. Zakaria.
you must be another clueless, naturalized foreign intellectual like Zakaria who hates America....MOVE.
Geesh – re: Remnick – everything that was said of Romney could have equally have applied to Obama – what does he really believe in? For the past 3 years – I find that Obama has been an enigma – campaigns one thing – says another – says he's going to do something – and then doesn't do it.....Obama is still an BIG UNKNOWN – maybe he'll surprise us and reveal who his is IF HE GETS RE-ELECTED??
Perhaps you should read the news more often ... the Iraq war has come to an end, Bin Laden is dead, Gays can serve openly in the military, the Afffordable Healthcare Act has been passed and the economy is improving just to name a few. You may not like any of those achievements, but its pure BS to say he hasn't done anything that he said he would do.
How could anyone possibly know what Mitt Romney stands for when he doesn't even seem to have a clue what he stands for? He comes across as an extremely shallow man to me and unlike him, I don't believe in magic underwear or their protective powers.
Mr. Zakaria-
Your tone indicates that you continue to favor the liberal slant of the media, especially CNN. How can we take your journalism seriously when it is obvious that you are seriously biased? While your points may be valid, it is also obvious that you have reduced a full and complex set of policies proposed by Mitt Romney into a one-sided soundbite in the attempt to make the man seem irrelevant and out of touch.
Please, leave your rhetoric for private interaction, and at least attempt to seem objective and unbiased when you are supposed to be reporting facts.
CNN has a duty to Time-Warner stock holders to run the stories that people WANT to read, thereby maximizing advertising revenue. It is not Time-Warner's job to be a nanny-corporation that tries to force readers to read things that are good for them. It has no legal obligation to follow any journalistic code of ethics. It has no legal obligation to publish stories that are accurate. CNN's only obligation is to Time-Warner stockholders. CNN certainly has no responsibility to you or its other readers.
If the customer wants a banana split, you sell him a banana split. You don't tell him that a bowl of spinach would be better for him.
It's called capitalism. I'm surprised you haven't heard of it.
Hey Ernie, dont like it?
Dont read it.
First, I have to applaud you for allowing that Zakaria's points are valid. You are far more sensible than many of your conservative brothers and sisters. But while you admonish Fareed for reducing Mitts complex policies to a sound bite, you are not recognizing that your candidate is doing that EXACT thing by claiming that president Obama "is a president who fundamentally believes that this next century is the post-American century."
So you are saying that Fareed should lay out Romney's policies more thoroughly, but Romeny is fine to pigeon hole, not only complex policies, but the superb results they have garnered, when Romney uses a one-sided soundbite in the attempt to make the [president] seem irrelevant and out of touch?
QQ
Dear Mitt, Keep it civil with Fareed please.
Apparently the Liberal-Socialist-Communist-Neo-Con media is in a conspiracy to make Ron Paul look bad.
At the same time, the Liberal-Socialist-Communist-Libertarian media is in a conspiracy to make Gingrich and Romney look bad.
Simultaneously the Liberal-Socialist-Communist-Satanic media is in a conspiracy to make Santorum look bad.
You can only trust Fox News to tell the truth.
... Romney has more knowlege of global politcs and the global economy that does Zakki, the wacky Pakki!
Oh really??????
Mr. Zakaria is obviously a huge Obama supporter, as is his right, but being a cheerleader for him 24/7 and masquerading as an objective journalist is beginning to become tiresome. His condescension toward the U.S. is not exactly subtle.
Mitt's world is much like the world of Mormons...they believe they have the only truth...they are insular...they are narrow...they are of the opinion that only they have importance...
World Series – ZING! Nice one, Mr Zakaria. However, baseball STILL is the best sport, and our country still is the best. But I'm a patriot without begrudging any other nation its advance and progress in the world. I have read your articles with interest and learned a lot from them over the last few years. Your statements that civil structure must precede free elections for democracy to work were especially helpful to my ongoing understanding of world events. I've always enjoyed traveling internationally. I was struck during a layover at Delhi by the sheer industriousness of India. They will do well, what with that and their emphasis on education and the populace's awakening to the problems of corruption. China is also on a meteoric rise, though there's more risk there with the regime balancing growth with stability. They would benefit from more openness in governance but the regime fears it. That could backfire in the medium term. There are several nations in South America that are also doing well. And the sheer capacity in human capital in Africa could well mean that in decades to come the dysfunction will give way to great things. I look forward to watching all of this happen over the next 4 or 5 decades. Planet Earth is not a zero-sum game.
Whether or not you agree to Zakaria's political leanings, he is correct. Like it or not, a lot of other countries in the world are rapidly catching up with America. We have a choice to make, roll over and accept our fate as England and Europe did, or innovate and educate and remain on the top. Based on America's current mindset, it appears Americans do not have the stomach for the effort it will take to remain on top. And that is really too bad.
You rightwing conservatives think CNN is pro- Obama? You better think again! Here's a little statistics for you to chew on..For almost three straight years CNN has been dangling a scary statistic in the face of the American people, so scary that I decided to do a little research for myself. For three consecutive years CNN has consistently reported that "no US President since FDR has been reelected when the unemployment rate has been above 7.2%. Well, guess what? That statistic is very mislead.
Well, yes the statistic is true yet very misleading! See only three US President have ran for reelection since FDR and those Presidents were Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H. Bush. Now how could you possibly compare these former Presidents' reelection bids to that of President Obama? Well, believe it or not, there's no comparison whatsoever. For example,when President Gerald Ford took over the Presidency from Richard Nixon on 8/1/74 the national unemployment rate was 5.5%. When President Jimmy Carter took over the Presidency on 1/1/77 the national unemployment rate was much higher at 7.5 and when President George H. Bush took over the Presidency on 1/1/88 the national unemployment rate was 5.7 %. But when President Obama took office on 1/20/09 the national unemployment rate was a whopping 7.8%. Furthermore, none of these previous three Presidents who ran for reelection...Ford, Carter and Bush Sr ever inherited two deadly and costly wars that destracted and intervened in their domestic leadership. And although President Carter's unemployment figures were a bit high and remained so during his tenure, his reelection chances were severely damanaged by the controversial Iranian Hostage Crisis. And GWB? Well, he was perhaps the worst President in US history to be reelected.
Something for the Republican owned and operated CNN to take into consideration. Obama/Biden 2012!
You are so true I HAVE NEVER thought CNN favored or backed Pres. Obama all one has to do is listen to the conjecture and opinions of the people like Gergen, Blitzer, and most of the commentators who speak on cnn. Most do very little research, are VERY bias,(anti Obama) never present both sides of a situation. When they have a guest who presents the other side they ALWAYS allow the guest who agrees with them talk the longest to have the last word and cut the other person off sooner. Bias by omission of all facts. I wish MSNBC'S Rachel Maddow were on basic TV like cnn. If one does not have extended cable (pay more) you can not get MSNBC. This is by design. MSNBC seems to have the real researchers, more young educated reporters, not the old GOP lovers on CNN.
CNN is very bias, anti Obama
Anti-Obama! CNN? Are you insane? They are not like MSNBC, but they are certainly pro-Obama
One of our past presidents said be ware of THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. Our prosperity SHOULD NOT depend on wars and the production of war materials. Check Bush and friends, Cheny, Haliburton. These men and many of their friends profit from wars. Pres. O. is aware of this, is trying to change this. He emphases job growth based on new products to save energy, based on foreign oil. He wants to create jobs by rebuilding our roads, bridges, dams, schools, invest in America. The GOP wants to privatize some of OUR roads, bridges, that we the Americans own b/c these same roads and bridges were bought with OUR tax dollars. It is true PRESIDENT OBAMA has restored our image in the world. He has gained the cooperation of many Eastern Countries. Many less educated Americans have no clue as to what the rest of the world is all about.
When it comes to religion, when ANY religion goes to the extreme there is chaos, check history. Based on the little knowledge regarding the 3 basic religions all believe in peace, love, caring for the poor, and justice.
I am 150% behind our president when it come to educating our people. The unemployment rate among people with is about 4%. I like reading these comments one can always the less educated folks. The educated ones have facts that back up opinion.
PRESIDENT OBAMA 2012
Yes & that past President who said it was 'Ike' = Dwight D Eisenhower–the kind of Republican who would'nt get a look in today at a GOP convention let alone be allowed to run for more than 5 minutes –and would be considered way too 'liberal' as would Reagan by these ever-rightward pushing clowns of today!
Fareed Loves to Kiss Obama's Rear.
How ignorant, comment shows lack of breeding and class.
Correction...make that four US Presidents who ran for reelection since FDR. The first to run for reelection after FDR was President Dwight D. Eisenhower and when he took office on 1/1/53 the national unemployment rate was 2.9%.
Hey Fareed,
if you got your toungue out of obama's tucchus for 5 minutes you might get enough oxygen to your brain to see that the multilaterl approach obama touted has been a complete failure...can you say syria? can you say russia arming syria and blocking on iran? can you say pakistan -US relations in free fall? what about the disaster he's made of the middle east peace process? china is thumbing their noses at obama...and the whole middle east is islamiscizing. I fail to see what the hell you are talking about.
I wish you would shut your ugly foreign islamic lovers mouth. and go wash your brown tongue...its unsightly.
Ignorant comment, indicates lack of breeding, class, and education. God help us when people like this post these kinds of comments.
Yes, you're right..I was out of line..however...I think you glossed over my main and very substantive point...and that is, the new multilateral (and its not new) push of obama's is, in fact, a failure. You simply chose to ignore the many issues I cited...and thats my fault for being a little too harsh...so yes, fareed, I apolgize. Having said that, I think your bias partisan propraganda masquerading as journalism is not only unseemly, but its also in my opinion, unethical.
This is the only way we will be greater as a nation , and better everytime on .I thought that the common sense had dissapeared from my beloved USA . Fortunately there are still people who are able to say and write that we are and we will be a great nation , just because we are able to recognize the reality that is around us.A leader do a lot of important things and between them are : get partners , have good relation with your neighbors , and make that everyone else recognize you like a leader.And it is not and easy job !!
"I'm convinced it can prosper in this new world and remain the most powerful country on the planet. But I argue that the age of America's singular dominance, its unipolarity, has ended.
Mr. Zakaria
It's not hard to divine why you have prospered here, but clarity of message cannot be one of the reasons. Your statement is contradictory! World domination is the province of the economically superior, which we're all agreed is not the USA nor the USA and it's allies anymore. So please, I beg you to stop mincing words. Mitt Romney doesn't have 'the goods' that he claims are lacking in our current President, but you befuddle some of your readers with your obfuscations.
shut your paki piehole
Like most foreigners who move here and receive their indoctrination from liberal Ivy League professors, Mr. Zakaria has no idea of what America is about. Instead, he projects his own ideas about what we are and should be which includes a weakened global position. Mr. Zakaria is a poster child for naturalized, intellectuals who are hell bent on destroying this country.
if there was ever a more biased so called journalist with by any measure is a huge conflict of interest, its fareed. How can you sit down and "advise" the president and then interview him with softballs and then go on network tv to pretend to give the news....
it is a total outrage that CNN allows this sockpuppet to play this game. And he has issue with fox? LOL...the HEIGHT of hypocrisy.
The truth is, obama's whole multilateral approach has been an abject failure. russian reset? laughable...china helping with iran? laughable. pakistan? relations in freefall. Israel? they hate obama and rightly so. Saudi? they similarly hate obama. Canada? cant stand the man...were now going to sell our oil to china because he played poliitics rather than weaning the US of middle east oil....not to mention creating over 20,000 jobs.
what is it that fareed doesnt get? Is his tongue that buried in obama's ass that he cant see the light?
and one more thing...fareed is not wrong that other nations are rising, but, he is most definitely wrong that obama's multilateral approach is winning them over. Its not. Fareed is conflating 2 different arguments. If anything, obama's weak foreign policy is projecting a paper tiger which is ENABLING other nations rise, not keeping them in balance. This president is screwing the US sotly, which leftist self loathing americans love to see. Its truly sad watching it happen.
It is a new world out there. It seems to me both "camps" tend to jump to comfortable solutions that fit their ideologies, and we as "reactors" tend to jump onto the side most comfortable to ours. I applaud Mr. Zak aria for offering us ideas to think bigger and how we might actually benefit from a new world. Just imagine, we wouldn't always have to be "it" for one thing. Brazil now has a higher environmental standard for energy extraction and development than we do in the US. Yet they have a robust energy sector. We can learn from that. The inventive manner entrepreneurs in developing countries are using resources and meager assets is indeed inspiring as is their thirst for knowledge. If we can become thoughtful and action oriented, Ready, Aim, Fire . . . and stop the circular firing squads . . . our greatness can truly shine. It's easy to say, but lately seems terribly hard to do.
Romney's not even a real Mormon, just another Illuminati fakir. Wait for the guy on the White Horse, a true leader will soon emerge. And their is nothing the fakirs and wrong doers can do to stop it. God rules.
And Obama is the biggest fakir ever! These men are all corrupt liars.
Why is it that liberals always use concrete statistics and hard facts to support their positions and those to the right always use outrageous name calling such as... socialist and communist and all sorts of derogatory terminology to describe liberals for their opinions on the issues? You people are just like your rightwing leaders in congress who seem to believe that outrageous name calling and senseless criticism of this administrations's policies and leadership are solutions to progress. No, your actions and behavior are not solutions but rather obstacles to progress!
I agree with you again. I see Pres. O as the adult in the room. Small people name call, talk about people rather than ideals, solutions to problems and unity.
Farred just doesn't get it: if the rest of the world is rising with respect to America, and we're just standing pat, then America is in decline, and tap dancing around the subject will convince no one that Zakaria is not salivating at the prospect of a second-rate United States having to hat in hand to Beijing.
WHY does a man worth over 200 million dollars want to be president? Incredible stress, long hours , possible assasination attempts and "low pay" ...HIDDEN AGENDA
TRUE, follow the money. Supreme Court decision 10/2011. Roberts, Alito, Skalia, Kennedy, Breyer, Thomas who appointed these guys? Wake up America do you want to be a surf or a slave with no benefits, low wages. no union protection, no regulations food, imports, safe work environment (29 miners killed, 11 oil drill workers killed) oil spills that ruin land, sea, air, cost a fortune to clean up.
do
Mitt Romney is a mormon,...mormonism is a cult
check out mormonwiki.org and enter lying_for_the_lord ,...it's same with islamic lying tactics of TAQIYYA and KITMAN
Goes to show you the mentality of people in this country who are stuck in the past, afraid to look at reality today. The world has change, and so must we. Not doing so will be backwards and detrimental to this nation. The hope is in the future, but we must see the realities of today in order to know how to plot our course.
Mitt and people like him are the reason why America is losing influence in the world. Americans must stop being so egocentric, thinking that you are the best, that you must be the world's policemen. Your foreign policies have failed resulting in domestic problems. Rising tides raise all boats and as long as America does not accept the economic realities in the world, it stands to be left behind. Understanding this reality and working to profit from it through improved education, sensible immigration, and free trade, is the way forward.
What would you know about a new world Zakaria you Indian leftist loser who should be deported...your new world is the new world order that your trying to bring to this nation and with the media losers like you and cnn we won't let you...you can't pull up any dirt on Romney so you have to make things up like this c r a p and hope it will mean something...it doesn't you phaggot!
Please post comments that are without name calling this shows what you are. It appears you lack breeding, class, inability to accept a different opinion than yours. No one has the same finger prints so we do not all think alike so we MUST respect another persons opinion which is based on their experience, knowledge, culture, and education. I have heard this man and I like some of his opinions.
You appear to be a Rush Limbaugh, Fox news type.
Fareed:
You write highly intelligent, thought-provoking pieces, but your Obama bias is so very blatant that it taints anything you write about republicans. You should disclose your party affliation, which is obviously democratic
Why should he? No one knows how or what he votes for behind closed doors. Maybe he was hired for this job b/c he is able to discuss these issues, present a different side of the coin, provide balance to station. When he is behind closed doors no one knows who or what he votes for. I know people who say they are republican to get a job or position but vote the opposite.
What would you know about a new world Zakaria you Indian leftist loser who should be deported...your new world is the new world order that your trying to bring to this nation and with the media losers like you and cnn we won't let you...you can't pull up any dirt on Romney so you have to make things up like this c r a p and hope it will mean something...it doesn't you phaggot! you pencil necked freak!
Mittens is a member of a religious cult as well as a financial one.
I would expect nothing less from you Fareed. Thank God most people in this country agree with Mitt's vision. I jst hope he has the corage to see it thru.
what vision is that?
that he is for and against health care mandates? (if he's against them, why did he sign them into law?)
that he is for and against payroll tax cuts? (his own economic plan offers them. but he criticizes obama for passing them)
that he is for and against the social safety net? (as of last week, he's not "concerned" about it).
that he is for and against tax reform? (he spent the first 1/3 of this year ridiculing herman cain)
mitt romney is walter mondale part deux.
a weak, boilerplate candidate with nothing to say about anything.
the bus has already hit the GOP. they just don't know it yet.
Dear Fareed,
I was disheartened to read your recent column criticizing Mitt Romney's recent comments about 'the post-American world.' As we all know, this was pure political rhetoric which is commonly used to enthuse the voters and to simply state that America is here to retain its status in the world. No voter wants to hear that America is in decline or about the rise of other countries.
What concerns me is your attack of Mitt when you know that this is political campaign jargon that should be left alone. Our current president constantly touts incorrect statements about the state of our country and that is never commented on.
Simply put, your success and popularity is due to your vast knowledge of foreign affairs and, to a lesser extent, economic issues. You should remain unbiased in your reporting as you have in the past. Lately, it is obvious that you are an Obama supporter and your writing reflects that. To comment on a trivial comment like Mitt's is unnecessary and, to be honest, beneath you.
Regards,
Danny
on a related topic...
hilariously. obamacare will NOT be obama's waterloo. (it'll be romney's)
Thank you for so eloquently stating the reality of our time. You are absolutely correct and the statistics prove that other countries are on the rise or have risen. The era of single dominance has ended but the fact that Romney is beating his chest not only shows his ignorance it also shows the sad reality of the base he is catering to.
Anyone who dare speaks the truth is an Obama Supporter... How these conservatives think is just beyond my imagination. I have never seen a group of self-serving people who thinks they are always right and the other people are wrong.
Anyone who speaks the truth is an American and can see passed the political BS. Bottom line! IF you think your party is better than the other, you are just another meaningless pawn, influenced by media and lies. We need to see the rise of an dependent party or better yet, our own Pirate Party.
Fared you are right with regard to Mitt pandering. With the amount of debt we have there is no way we can afford to expand the military. However to say that Obama is leading this country or the world with his foreign policy is quite a stretch. The fact of the matter is that Obama has not been a leader in the first three years however is showing some leadership now. But is it enough? Our debt is our Achilles heel...what is the plan? The reason we have deployed to the middle east, me and many of my friends, is because we have no energy policy! What is the plan to get off foreign oil? The only reason Obama has a chance at a second term is because the republicans cannot produce a leader either. In fact it's quite embarrassing what they are bringing to the election!
We need just one leader to rise to the challenge....regardless of party!
Farret-You are a joke! Get a life and a new job you loser
Great! Fareed you know the stuff and we should appreciate your opinion. You are above so many US politicians believing they are living in the best country of the World, but have never been overseas... You should be the next Secretary of State!
Hey Irene, if your in the USA, I will gladly buy you a 1-way ticket out of here, so long as you promise to not come back!
Let's hope that people are smart enough to look past obamas worthless strategy at change just for change sake and embrace some actual real strategies at bringing our economy back from the dead. Time to stop giving china so much of our business and bring home some of our factories. Fared is just another example of a foreigner who plays to obama becuase he bows down to them like a dog. How about we focus on america for a change and forget about appeasing all of these other countries who just want to destroy us.
WASHINGTON - At a private three-day retreat in California last weekend, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch and about 250 to 300 other individuals pledged approximately $100 million to defeat President Obama in the 2012 elections.
A source who was in the room when the pledges were made told The Huffington Post that, specifically, Charles Koch pledged $40 million and David pledged $20 million.
The semi-annual, invitation-only meeting attracts wealthy donors, Republican politicians and conservative activists. Last year, hundreds of activists gathered outside the walled-off resort to protest the meeting. This year, however, the conference went off quietly.
"Conference organizers and their guests successfully slipped in and out of the Coachella Valley without being detected, by buying out nearly all of the 500-plus rooms at the Renaissance Esmeralda resort in Indian Wells," reported The Desert Sun. "The resort closed its restaurants, locked down the grounds with private security guards and sent many workers home."
This is the ninth straight year the Kochs have hosted the conference. As Politico reported last year, the meetings often adjourn "after soliciting pledges of support from the donors - sometimes totaling as much as $50 million - to nonprofit groups favored by the Kochs."
The fact that the wealthy conservative donors pledged $100 million for the 2012 elections shows how intent they are on trying to get Obama out of office - and previews how intense, and likely nasty, the general election will be.
There are limits on how much an individual can give to a political candidate. Therefore, much of the money pledged at the recent gathering will likely go to super PACs or nonprofits that can spend and accept unlimited amounts of funds. GOP primary voters have already gotten a glimpse of how the political system looks with super PACs around: record amounts of money spent on a large number of negative ads in the early primary states.
The source told The Huffington Post that they lamented the direction the conference has taken over the years. They said it used to be about "conservative strategy" and building a movement, but now it was mostly an "alpha male" spectacle focused on fundraising to beat Obama.
The Koch brothers have been the major donors behind many Republican candidates, the Tea Party movement and efforts to discredit the science around man-made global warming. Democrats frequently highlight the brothers to fundraise, and the first TV ad of the Obama reelection campaign invoked them as "secretive oil billionaires attacking President Obama with ads fact checkers say are not tethered to the facts."
Also at the conference was Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of the Citadel Investment Group. He supported Obama in 2008, leading his employees to contribute more than $205,000 to the campaign. By the time of the election, however, he had switched his allegiance to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Since the election, he has openly discussed his "frustration" with Obama's policies, stating that he is "greatly concerned about the fiscal instability of the U.S." In the fourth quarter of 2011, Citadel employees completely abandoned Obama, contributing nothing to his campaign while giving $120,500 to presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
The Center for Public Integrity also reported that for the first time, Las Vegas casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson attended the conference. Adelson and his family are largely bankrolling Newt Gingrich's presidential run, with Adelson and his wife, Miriam, having given the pro-Gingrich super PAC Winning Our Future $10 million just this year.
Good, Obama's got Oprah and Hollywood pumping him full of dirty money. $35,000 a plate dinner! Hippocrate.
David and Charles Koch are the sons of Fred Koch, wealthy industrialist and founding member of the John Birch Society. The John Birch Society was thrown out of the Republican Party in the 1960s for being too extreme by such lefties as William F. Buckley Jr. The Birchers accused President Dwight D. Eisenhower of being a communist sympathizer because he spoke out against Joseph McCarthy. Their central precepts are built on isolationism, racial separatism, and virulently anti-government ideas. What they tried to do was masquerade as a populist movement, when all it really was was a movement financed by corporate fascists like Koch who opposed ANY government interference in business. They oppose the minimum wage, any form of government enforced worker protections, and any form of collective bargaining by employees. This is why the Koch brothers have been so involved in state politics lately, especially in Wisconsin and Ohio. These are dangerous men who want to control the government for purposes of self-aggrandizement. Ron Paul has been a lifelong supporter, if not a member of the John Birch Society. When he spoke at its 50-year anniversary convention in 2009, he called it a "great and patriotic organization". Paul's foreign and domestic policy positions are right out of the John Birch Society handbook, which was largely adapted by the Tea Party and Americans for Prosperity.
It's clear that Fareed Zakaria is boot licking for his own personal gain. Probably lobbying for Sec. of State after Hilary steps down. I understand what he's trying to say amidst all the brown nosing, it is a different world, but Obama isn't respected, he has broken promises, received a peace prize and then turned around and increased warfare. Obama is a politician, corrupt and bound by his financial benefactors like the rest. Money transcends party affiliations and morality.
Honestly, it doesn't matter, Romney or Obama, they are the puppets, attached to the same strings.
YOU ARE TOTALLY & MISGUIDEDLY WRONG! FAREED ZAKARIA IS ONE OF THE FEW TOTALLY SANE, WISE & HIGHLY CONSIDERED COMMENTATOR VOICES ON TELEVISION WITH A WORLDLY WISDOM AND ACUTE SENSE OF GLOBAL OVERVIEW OF HOW, WHY WHERE & TO WHAT WE HAVE COME & WHERE WE NEED TO BE HEADED IN A CHANGING WORLD! WITH THESE ABILITIES HE MATCHES THE PRESIDENT & THAT IS WHY HE UNDERSTANDS WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS TRYING TO DO IN SUBTLY ADJUSTING OUR FOREIGN POLICY FOOTPRINT TO BE 'A SOFTER TREAD & LESS ARROGANT! -BUT TO DO THIS WHILE REMAINING STRONG! IT IS A PLEASURE ON SUNDAY TO WATCH & HEAR THE CAREFUL CONSIDERATIONS & OPINIONS THAT GO INTO MAKING THIS SHOW ONE OF THE BEST OF ITS KIND EVER –& WITH ITS HUGE INTL AUDIENCE IS AN EFFECTIVE SHOWCASE FOR OUR COUNTRY'S ADJUSTING POSTURE BEFORE THE EYES OF THE WORLD
Zakaria is the the most sensical and honest analyst there is. We want more! More air time. More topics. More in depth. More driving the point home.
Fareed is and continues to be a shameless Islamic apologist. No matter what the incident or person, Zakaria will spin it and minimize blame for the Muslims. Take a look at the riots in Egypt after the loss. Zakaria predictably compared the violence to the onset of a new democracy, ignoring the fact that the Muslims in Egypt have elected an Islamic fundamentalist group to power (proving they don't actually want democracy). Also, he compares the new democracy of countries from hundreds of years ago. Have people not evolved? Not muslims, apparently.
Zakaria, has never travelled anywhere of significance... his viewpoint is clouded by the fact that when he speaks of Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Russia... he has never lived or worked there ....
I find it difficult having worked for Reuters myself and seen what a true journalist is... to give him credit for his opinions and articles on CNN
Haha even other journalist think Zakaria is incompetent! Hey CNN, you need to fire this guy, he's making you look really bad!
Zakaria have you ever left the city within America? I'm just curious... Here in America between the cities there's this vast area of people in a place called the Countryside where folks still believe in things like individualism and personal freedom. And no, our first priority (or 10th priority) is not India or Brazil, but our families and our communities. You've offended an incredible amount of people with your blind support for the worst president in recent history!
Now we're really seeing the dirty side of those who call themselves conservative, "Family values" voting for a Mormon who believes men should marry young girls and have many wives. I don't know about you but I only want my son and daughter having one husband or wife. Romney is a friend of Jeff Warren wow .
Dear Mr. Zacarias, I was offended by your opening statement on GPS this morning, Sunday, February 5th. Not so much because I disagreed with much of what you said about what the Great Obama has achieved, and I do. I was disappointed in the disrespectful manner manner in which you addressed a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Taken in context, it was you lecturing him, a prominent figure on the national stage from your vantage point as a journalist. It was as if I began this message by addressing you as, Hey Boy!
CONSIDERING THE AMOUNT OF FORK-TONGUED TWADDLE, PREVARICATION & FOOLISHNESS EMANATING FROM THIS CANDIDATES MOUTH EVERY TIME HE OPENS IT MR ZAKARIA IN ALL HIS OBVIOUS WISDOM THAT I AM THANKFUL IS ON WEEKLY DISPLAY- WAS MORE THAN KIND! –AS WELL AS BEING RIGHT ON THE MONEY IN HIS GLOBAL VIEW THAT AS AS USUAL IS APPLIED TO HOW THINGS REALLY ARE IN TODAYS REAL -NOT THE GOP'S -WORLD! BEST WISE & FAIR COMMENTING VOICE ON TELEVISION–BY A LONG CHALK!
The US is on the decline due to the laziness supported by all the government social programs.. 1/3 of Americans are obese and lazy.. they clog up the health system with their diabetes and unhealthy lazy lifestyle. The 40% of Americans that live off government assistance and the other 35% that are paid to work for the government are bleeding this country dry. Social programs are the peoples own worst enemy. People will get off the couch and go to work if they have to. Nobody sits and the couch and starves..
This article goes in one direction when it should be going the other. Do you honestly think China and Russia are our friends? Do you think their emergence and their overspending on their military is good for the U.S.?
We should be spending more, not less, on our own military to be prepared in the event they are needed. The last thing we need is to be reactive when we are once again called to defend Democracy. We need to be proactive. We need to show the world that our military is the strongest by far. We need to leave no doubt in the minds of any Communist regime that picking a fight with the U.S. will only lead to their downfall.
To think the other way will leave us looking like France in WWII.
"After all, just because we call it the World Series doesn't actually make it one."
And just because you call yourself a journalist doesn't necessarily make YOU one.
I would think that his employer has defined his profession. CNN employs him as a journalist and TV show host. MLB has determined its franchise game as "World Series". (Or more appropriately for today, NFL calls the winner of the Super Bowl "World Champions".) You don't have to agree with his opinions or what he writes, nor does he have to pander to your opinion; that is the job – and definition – of a "conservative press". A "free press" (or liberal media, if you prefer) gathers facts that may not be so palatable and informs us, anyway. That's how we learn about things that need to be fixed, or at least, discussed.
"Fareed," how did you get your own "show?" You are anti-American, and are most offensive. You're surprised that American conservatism is bound tightly ("still") with religion??? How dare you? I noticed somewhere in your spin show, you mentioned the poor muslims who've had to in some way stifle their "fundamentalist Islam" practices. And at the end, you advise us to "Cut the Arabs and "Arab Spring" some slack." SICKENING. To THIS, we've come? "Fareed," you need to be kicked OFF of American TV.
Mitt does not believe in anything. He will say/do anything that will get him elected and will be a president with no imagination or helief like GWBush and will be at the bid of those who helped elect him. The Word has changed and there are other powerful countries and going to War with them only drain USA further.
I don't think Mit needs anybody’s money.. He just wants to fix the country. It’s the rotten democrats that are beholding to the lazy and the depraved parasites on the good people of this country that you should be worried about.. oh wait,, that’s why you don’t like Mit.
I recently had a chance to watch latest GPS show today (05Feb12) and in his overview about world event, he forget to mention what happened recently at Jaipur India where Muslim fanatic groups in collusion with state and central govt. prevented an indian citizen from visiting the country to attend literary festival. Zakari often show emotion in supporting muslim cause and wonder what he thinks about this incidence. Does his reserve his opinion to western media and please his bosses to take muslim cause or does he have to say any thing to his brothers in muslim community.
I would take this more seriously but when you start an article about mentioning your book, buy itunes episodes, etc, it kinda dilutes the message. At least wait until the end of the article...
Fareed, is the typical naturalized, muslim, foreign intellectual. Grows up abroad, moves to US where he is immediately indoctrinated by the liberal Ivy league left...then thinks he knows what American culture is all about...doesn't produce anything, doesn't create a company or jobs, but is arrogant enough to think he knows what this country is all about. Fareed, you know nothing about this country. Your just another muslim, usa hater who can't wait to vote for the weak in our country, the democratic party.
pesos, my feelings exactly... it's all about selling books.
Mr Fareed Zakaria has been invited many times to advise President Obama on foreign policy. He probably still does. So who do you expect he is going to suppor now that it looks like it will between Mitt or Obama? plus, make a profit while selling books.
Dr Zakaira, I found your 'It's a New World, Mitt' part of your programme this morning to be banal, condescending and almost simple minded and transparent attack on a leading GOP candidate. Do you really believe that 'Mitt' is operating under the assumption that we are in the 1950's or that China, Brazil and Turkey's economic progress has gone unnoticed by him and his advisers? Clearly you seem to firmly believe that it is time fro the US to take an apologetic position and back seat in Global Politics (I guess so that the New World leaders like Russia and China and make even more decisions like backing Syria in the UN through their veto power. The proof of the ludicrous position you took was perfectly shown through your own interview of PM Lee of Singapore who, amongst other interesting statements, stated that the US has over the decades shown the type of being influence that is a good role model for China to follow. It is a shame that you have taken a rather good concept programme wise and turned it into just another political propaganda show for your views. Mr Romney may be a lot of things but ignorant and stupid are two things I suspect greatly that he isn't. I will be looking out for the critiques (which I hope are done in a more respectful manner than yours of 'Mitt') of President Obama's one day. Then again, maybe one might not be coming, since you might think there is no reason for it. Dr Zaikaira, yes, it is a different world indeed, people are more educated than give us credit for so please, stop the gratuitous pandering and one sided attacks.
So anyone who speaks ill about what's going on in America is Anti-American... Haha. You GOPers make me laugh.
Let's face it....The media have become highly partisan propagandists. Something really needs to be done about it.
Television and the net are incredibly powerful mediums that can easily be manipulated to the detriment of society overall. Aside from Fox, when were talking about television, there really is only Fox in one side of the divide, and at that, fox, when you actually watch it, is mostly a center right news group...whereas EVERYONE else is either on the center left and far left.When the news you get is disproportionately one sided, that becomes dangerous to the greater good and I think we're seeing that. People like Fareed need to be scrutinized. I personally dont think we should be making these people our moral centers...does no one remember what happened when the media started making wall street analysts media starts before the dotcom bubble burst?Report news, report affairs and stop telling us what to think.
The severe itching picky face reactions associated with a diabetes condition, isn't that directly. On the body surface it is neutralized or releived with a salt or soda bath, which washing with that same solution doesn't calm the facial skin it seems and neck area.
I just washed with that strong gell, that has a cooling dry out feeling, of those antibacterial hand soaps for sterilizing that are put in hospitals and other such places, except there are some compact tube and other containers sold with the same antibacterial wash or antiseptic treatment. I think it is healed. It may be a kidney/pancreas related stubborn germ or bacterial yeast that grows more in sugar content skin or such from eating sweets or bad reactions to processing food into body sugars. You can't use too much because it feels funny on the face when used, but if you don't wait too long and wash with cold water splash after and pat dry with a clean towel or paper towel, it is a tolerable treatment. They only say to wash hands with that cleaning gel or clear liquid but it is needed on the face. I still have to research where the germ or bacteria/whatever is and how it gets exposed to the face tissue in that incurable seemingly way.
Maybe the whole body needs that brand of sterilizing gel treatment as well. Body washes aren't like that class of antibacterial and don't help either. I am not sure though i have to wait and see if the itching reaction returns. but allergy medicine isn't subdueing it. Many have that itching problem but they are told it is diabetes symptom problems without being given any kind of treatment medicinally or otherwise. it drives you crazy. sometimes it is too severe. but it isn't like psoriasis that comes with scaley reddish type damage on the skin. it isn't possible to get any sleep when the problem starts and it is evening time for resting. I have the problem even if i don't eat sugar content food. I am retesting the lemon juice i reported for the related other itching causes. It could be a septic contaminant that gets into the air of your home or apt. at certain times but they don't want to discuss it. comes from bad plumbing and such. irregardles of good cleaning habits – something like getting invaded by bed bugs and stuff like that – but i don't have any of those pests. Possibly too if they have that type of biogerm warfare they may have contaminated my place with it just like they poison my foods different times. it may be pet germ but isn't fleas or tics. you can see fleas if pets have them, i am not sure what there kind of tics are.i have to research that. 30 years ago when i was working in that field of business/career i noticed farmers had the problem a lot. so it may be an animal livestock, pet environment caused biogerm. i used to think those farmers had a lot of untreated t.b. but may be some mixture of conditions. i will also have to lightly treat my cats and birds. I know it isn't a pet allergy because allergies of any kind respond to antihistamines or allergy medications even severe hair dye damage reaction is releived with those antihistamines. i don't have the other reactions for that type of allergy as well – like sneezing and bad runny nose and breathing totally stuffed up sometimes to asthmatic proportions.
Failing that i have to go back to taking the t.b. class worming medicine like before when it releived my skin sickness.
tnymma-iii younan research management
Do to one party obstructionism, our country for their political fodder will remain stagnated! If a cure for cancer was found, they'd make sure it was denied from public access. Just like access to health care for millions of uninsured Americans. I'm really baffled by the hypocrisy of evangelicals and fundamentalist Christians who support a party that goes totally against everything their messiah believed in and practiced everyday he was alive. The Catholic church is so concerned by access to birth control, that they would rather not support for basic health care for all their parishioners. If our country is in a sustained state of decay, it's because one party is supported by the money changers of Wall Street, Pharmaceuticals, Oil and Gas Industry, and the Chamber of Commerce. A party that wants to abolish minimum wage laws, OSHA, EPA, DOE, and have every state a right to state! I can't believe I've ever voted for anyone in that party, but it will never happen again. Where I live, it's all right wing zealots and defeating Obama is more important then any personal moral precepts.
There is an itchiness that goes with some kind of bloatiness around the total midriff that is related/caused by pancreatic diabetic level infections etc. but whether all the other area itchiness and including in the scalp is the same more direct cause is not really provable. if there is a t.b. involved infection it would actually go through the skin surface everywhere and need killing regularly, while also killing the internat spreading plague like disease(s). the skin surface itchiness which also includes the groin and behind area is a wormy feeling type of itchiness as well so that is true that there is strong evidence of t.b. and similar parasitic disease. but in the pancreas when it takes over it does react or get symptomatically influencing or damaging as related to sugar diabetes "cancer" which isn't chemical in itself.
tnymma-iii
Well said Fareed.
The truth hurts, but truth helps rather than destroy. Mitt's militarism ideology is not going to win friends overseas. It is also going to cost $$$$$ to American taxpayers.
I think Asians, and people in the emerging countries, have totally lost respect for American politicians, especially the American Congress. Because they saw it with their own eyes, the amazing circus show put up by Republicans senators in that debt ceiling default stop threat.
The whole world watched in horror at this strange behaviour of American politicians, because everyone is aware that the global economy will be adversely damaged if the US Government collapses.
And to add salt to the wound, it was the Republicans who actually caused the greatest financial disaster for America after 10 years of horrific irresponsible governmentship.
All of America's savings were wiped out by years of wasteful, meaningless, unprofitable foreign wars. Nothing, absolutely nothing, was ever gained from these useless wars. But it cost alot of money, taxpayers money.
The mismangement of America's wealth ,and image, has greatly damaged America today. And if you add in Mitt Romney's idiosycransy and outdated political rhetorics, America's is now seen as an unreliable country .
Already Chinese around the world are terribly upset that Mitt joins manipulative, hypocrite, money-face R Trumps in calling Chinese as "cheaters". How can Mitt Romney expect to lead the world into a new era of peaceful and progressiver world politics by blaming US problems solely on China? He is really an old mindset, who is out ot touch with reality and he forgets that USA economy can collapse overnight if he continues doing the same thing the Republican Government have been doing previously.
Somehow I fear strangely that Americans at large are not being practical and realistic at all. It's time to change old mindsets and face the truth ?
What part of breaking most every WTO rule by China is acceptable to you? Since you clearly believe like FZ and Obama that the US now needs to take a back seat in world politic, I guess you believe in the likes of the United Nothing to take up the void that will be left with the likes of China and Russia vetoing stronger sanctions on Syria opening the door for more massacres (read today's news). Yes, you are right, Iraq was unnecessary and far too costly in terms of lives and money. This though is not reason to become an isolationist. FZ's comments were insulting, juvenile and short sighted. Yes, it is a new world FZ, a far more dangerous one than you painted. Imagine any past or current nation with the power the US has had in the last fifty or so years and then think of what kind of world this would be. Do you really want to go there?
The only thing missing from your story on Mitt Romney is "I am Barack Obama and I approve this ad"
As an American who loves this country, when I see a foreigner (Fareed Zakaria) speak the way you did this Sunday morning about the greatest country ever to exist all I can say is take your book and shove it. And please, take Obama with you. It IS the world series because American families enjoy it and we take our kids to it where they eat hot dogs, pizza and they don't get blown up by suicide bombers and we go to the world series in automobiles not camels. Just like supporters of the ex-Soviet Union, you too will hang your head low when Mitt Romney makes this country the leader and only super power in the world again.
Many people skim through Mr. Zakaria's articles and retire with a good feeling thinking that he is brutally honest, as someone who’s deeply concerned about our position in the world, and a highly patriotic American.
Mr.Zakaria has mastered this art by making some broad sweeping statements, something that’s a no-brainer to most knowledgeable Americans, only to trap the gullible reader into his line of thought. Once that’s achieved he lures the gullible reader into his line of thought which is reinforced in subsequent articles, all cleverly buried in sugarcoated/apologetic language that these people often fail to easily decipher.
His efforts are analogous to what is known as “honey pot” in Information Technology, where Information Security professionals lure potential hackers by promising a rich loot of privacy info etc., when in reality are fed junk. Mr. Zakaria's approach is about the same, with just one exception, the roles are reversed here!
To be contd....
Part 2:
So, what these people don’t realize is that Mr.Zakaria is a Muslim and like a vast majority of Muslims he hates America (& the entire free world) and holds us responsible for most of the ills facing the Muslim world. To that extent he champions nearly every Muslim issue (both real & perceived) anywhere in the world.
Having said that his love for America is limited to his hugely successful career achieved by covertly casting himself in the mold of other concerned liberals, which he clearly is not!
To be contd....
Swhat if Zakaria is Muslim , Mitt is a devoted MORMIN who has been promoting Polygamywhy do you think all the sister wives and their children have been turning out the vote for him in Nevada. Mitt is certainly no Christian so what is your Point.
I am not against my former countryman just b'coz he's a Muslim. In fact I am the greatest admirer of several of Pakistan's leading columnists for Pakistan's #1 newspaper Dawn incl. Irfan Husain, Nadeem Paracha, I A Rehman who are all Muslims. Unlike Mr. Zakaria these truly enlightened Muslims discuss indepth how Muslims in America are misusing our freedoms, while being deafeningly silent on the rights to minority Christians & others in their own own countries.
Wish Mr.Zakaria takes a leaf out of these noble Muslims' words & deeds.....which many Americans know he is just incapable of!
"Sadday" your comment about Mitt Romney being a devoted Mormon (not Mormin) and a polygamist shows you are not an educated person. If you would have done your research before making a comment and looking stupid you would know that main stream MORMONS do not practice polygamy any haven't for a hundred years and they are Christians. Before making comments you should really know what your talking about instead of making hearsay comments.
@TerryS:
You are right. On the contrary many mainstream Muslims incl. very highly educated ones follow polygamy (where it is allowed such as in India where Muslims can legally have upto 4 wives, if I am correct).
Mr. Rafiq Zakaria (Mr.Fareed Zakaria's father and a highly educated Islamic Scholar) himself had 2 wives. Plz. note that I do realize it has absolutely no bearing on Mr.Fareed Zakaria's credentials in any way.
Sorry, YET AGAIN I can't complete my above responses as my comments are not going through!
I know for a fact that this censorship happens to me only in Mr. Fareed Zakaria's column and NOT everywhere on CNN.
Looks like Mr. Zakaria is scared of my candid assessment!
"Sadday" your comment about Mitt Romney being a devoted Mormon (not Mormin) shows you are not an educated person. If you would have done your research before making a comment and looking stupid you would know that main stream MORMONS do not practice polygamy any haven't for a hundred years and they are Christians. Before making comments you should really know what your talking about instead of making hearsay comments.
Mitt is a MORMON he will promote Polygamy. Mitts does support having many young wives.
Again Sadday you do not know the facts or truth. MORMONS DO NOT believe in POLYGAMY anymore. I have studied many different religions and I am very knowledgeable in many. I am only defending the Mormons as I would any other religion if the facts being reported were false. If you live near any of the LDS (Mormon) Temples go into the visitors center as I did and ask all the questions you have & read & research it so you know the truth instead of taking someone else's word. There was a split in the Mormon religion when Brigham Young abolished polygamy after settling in Salt Lake City. Some of the members broke away & started another branch of Mormons called the FLDS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints ) which still believe in polygamy and their leader is the infamous Warren Jeff's who married 13-14 year old girls. He is absolutely a crazy idiot and many people get them confused with the LDS church. The FLDS is a small group of people who follow Warren Jeff's teachings and are very different than the LDS church. There are several religions that in my opinion are wrong & are like a Cult and the FLDS is one. I hope I was able to clear up your view & opinion of the mainstream LDS Mormons & I hope you change your view & opinion of them. I think Mitt Romney would be a good President, not because he is a Mormon but because he has experience in business & has been very successful. Wouldn't you really want a President who has experience in business & successful than a person who is not successful & never has had experience in business & doesn't really know how to run a company let alone a country.
Heh heh - World Series. Ouch!
As someone who rarely posts responses I find the ones here fascinating. Many of the points being brought up are good ones on both sides.
This is so much more than about Mitt. Please remember that Mr. Obama promised to curtail our military actions over seas and for the most part he has followed through. No the real question... for better or worse? Iraq is tumbling back in sectarianism violence, Afghanistan still an opium haven with the Taliban still maintaining a base to retake control when we leave... so only time will tell if our actions or lack there of by leaving will bring any real change to the area.
I have traveled to many parts of the world and have not seen the "intelligent" world that Mr. Zakaria has spoke of be represented on the streets of Cairo, Turkey, Greece or likes. It very easy to get caught up in what you think the world is like based on your exposure. After traveling with Nubians in Egypt, Bedouins in Sinai... people are much more tolerable by nature than we Americans believe but to say they are intelligent philosophers is a far cry from reality. These people are simple people, who are kind and accepting that way out of a lack of knowledge to judge other with not because they know of us and like what they hear.
I agree we need a strong military. The unfortunate fact is regimes change fast (as seen by the Arab Spring, North Korea and ), the politics of an area can change quickly as seen by what is happening in France and
I am not judging what will the "final" outcome but let's all take a step back and recognize there is no such thing as a just that... a final outcome. Let's do accept that the world is facing some interesting challenges. We are facing a budding energy challenge, some countries taking the authoritarian approach to social control, others like America try (and I do mean try) taking a more empowering approach to overcome.
The last group of countries, and this list is growing fast, have no stable government and pose a true threat to global stability. Our military is not just about projecting force, its also the largest, most mobile humanitarian force in the world. When a politician, religious figure, the press or anyone else says we should not have a strong military please make sure they understand that Haiti, Indonesia, all the people rescued from pirates, women who can now be taught in schools without persecution... the list is long. Our military is positive force, not perfect but better than tyranny and suffering.
Mr. Zakaria, I do not your motives but please understand that when you speak of the old verses the new world there has been and always have been to visions of this new world. The enlightened, intelligent world who would have no violence beyond the occasional heated debate of ideas that always end with a perfectly accepted majority rule vote...so logical and The other is that of much more emotional, many times religious influenced, unworldly view that leads to intolerance, violence and these people are not all unintelligent but what they do not lack in resolve to protect their views.
We need both sides. Rarely do I find a Harvard educated academic willing to take up a bunk in a ship in hostile waters willing to deliver aid to the needy in inhospitable conditions and the next day take up arms to protect those being unfairly attacked. We need the Harvard types to make sure we keep the power those entrusted with it in check.
This is all pure personal perspective but let me part with one last view. We will get there. My guess is that we will get the world in the middle... a compromise of perspectives born of tolerance, respect for other's beliefs and a healthy fear that the world will not stand by letting people get abused or used.
Until that perfect utopia comes neither side give up... but try to not to demonize each other. If you live in America life would not be as good as you come to expect it to be without both sides strongly influencing our country. Thanks for reading.
Hear, hear . . . stop demonizing one another. There are many ways to get to the same place.
hmmmm reality 4 america and American politics and representation.......if it is true and reality it can be built on why are all others wasting so much time and money ????.pride ego ..or it's just the weigh we has always dun? it by tired angry faced fat old men and women
hmmmm reality 4 america and American politics and representation.......if it is true and reality it can be built on why are all others wasting so much time and money ????pride ego ..or it's just the weigh we has always dun? it by tired angry faced fat old men and women
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Hey JB...you are kidding, right? you have the nerve to talk abut republicans nominating Palin... Do you realize who you democrats nominated,,,,,,,, Biden has to be the biggest clown ever put in office...."Go Giants"..... remember him saying that? HE FORGOT HE WAS IN SAN FRNACISCO, NOT NEW YOUK........hope nothing happens to Obama,, can you imagine him being president.... he could not a pimple on Palins butt
Hey Fareed, I enjoy every bit of your generally balanced cerebral outputs and I won't miss GPS on Sunday for anything. But don't you often sound like an Obama apologetic even when you are speaking the truth? Thinktank, would you rather we bring back D
Hey Fareed, I enjoy every bit of your generally balanced cerebral outputs and I won't miss GPS on Sunday for anything. But don't you often sound like an Obama apologetic even when you are speaking the truth? Thinktank, would you rather we bring back Dan Quayle as VP. He can outdo Sarah Palin in bufoonery
You gotta wonder, if Romney was president, what would change for the better? And I'm thinking absolutely nothing will change for the better. On the contrary, the GOP has only demonstrated how they can ruin the economy with blind ignorance about the American worker and American banks and American businesses.
fareed zakaria looks alot like mohamad attah. it may just be a coincidense or is it the in breading that takes place in muslim countrys.
I noticed one thing at super bowl yesterday. Brady has to throw the ball at stride, then welker can come down with a catch. He can't just come down with a catch out of nowhere like Randy. Big time republican supporters have the advantage of using super pac this year. They can use those super pacs to set everything up for their republican candidate this year.
the biggest problem for Romny now is that he said and promised that the first day as a president of US, he will declair China as munipulater and tax everything imported from China. We will see how that will help US economy, and we will see how staple, the business he claim for credit, will survive, and how poor people were taken care of: they will stay at home because no where to go shopping. In addition, walmart will close door, Apple will close door and all related business related to China will be in big trouble including trump's construction. it is wise to stop mis-spoken and listen to others, like bloomberg.
It is simple. The 1% are opening the basement door holding a broom and a pale. Too bad the basement is filled with sewage up to thier waist. Now they are trying to figure out how to break the news to the wife, while still being able to go golfing this weekend..
Very Disappointed....
I used to be a huge fan of Fareed’s. Unfortunately it seems he has been corrupted by the same ilk that despises America and is extremely reluctant to cast the same dispersions on the rest of the world.
Has he even characterized how disgusting and morally corrupt China’s and Russia’s vetoes of UN resolutions on Syria are?
Pathetic and sad.
Signed,
A former believer
@Daniel:
Good that you are now able to see through the anti-American agenda of my former countryman (from India, which he hates too!). I have reviewed his columns in detail, and the only agenda he has is his rabidly anti-Semite, Anti-West and Pro-Islamic agenda.
Check out my responses above.
I made the following comment even without ever heard of this man Juan Cole! I just now did a GOOGLE check on this man and find a ton of material showing his Islamic leanings!
Several year ago I called Mr.Fareed Zakaria also hugely biased in favor of Muslims even when hardly there was anything anyone had said on that.
Now I know for sure these guys are Islamic sympathizers who will never rest until Israel is destroyed and the free world comes under the great Islamic Caliphate.
Mr. Fareed Zakaria is carrying forward the agenda of his polygamist Indian father Mr.Rafiq Zakaria, an Islamic scholar who fought tooth & nail to prevent the creation of Pakistan (& Bangladesh) and divide Muslims while losing a heavenly opportunity to bring India under Islamic rule.
BTW, here's what I wrote on Juan Cole's analysis.
"This analysis seems to be inspired by leading anti-Semites like (distinguished!) Prof. Mohammed Ayoob of University of Michigan, and/or CNN's Mr.Fareed Zakaria, or Dean ObeidALLAH, or Imam Rauf or Ethan Casey all of whom want to see the downfall of Israel and the West."
Amit-Atlanta-USA
Fareed,
I continue to watch your GPS as it does bring some valuable information.
But I find you to be an increasingly Pro-Obama mouth-piece.
GPS' advertisement subtly chides and derides Republican (especially Romney – as he is clearly the 'untlimate' front-runner) thinking & ideology. Even some of your segments start with a direct quote (or half-quote) of Republican sound-byte.
You cleverly mentioned in five words or less how Romney's 'Poor' comments were taken out of context but then proceeded to commentary at length how Romney's 5% Poor was a miscalculation.
BTW, GPS stated that Romeny considered 95% Middle Class and 5% Poor – what, in your mind happened to Romeny's stats for Rich? or does GPS needs a Calculator to misrepresent someone else's statistics?
Again, in a subtle Pro-Obama, Anti-Romney tilt you mentioned that Romeny paid 13 – 14% Tax.
How diingenous of you to not even mention $3Mil of Romney's charitable contribution which would make Romeny's 'Re-distribution' (as Obama's Class Warfare juggenaut would want) is roughly 30%.
Can I ask you to ask Obama how much his total 'Re-distribution' of wealth was Taxes and Charitable contributions combined?
I hope you will be balanced enough not to turned me off GPS.
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