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Wanted: A New Grand Strategy

The next U.S. president faces a unique opportunity to put in place an architecture of peace for the 21st century.

By Fareed Zakaria | NEWSWEEK
Published Nov 29, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Dec 8, 2008

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  • Posted By: Inst @ 02/14/2009 10:45:03 PM

    I thought you were an Indian? Math failure; 1% economic growth correlates to a 1.01 multiplier, while 5% economic growth correlates to a 1.05 multiplier. In this case, 1.05/1.01 is much less than the 5 times you predicted, and the 1.10/1.03 ratio of growth that used to exist between the United States and China.

  • Posted By: Col B @ 12/29/2008 12:32:17 AM

    Coming from one who has studied terrorism both academically and professionally for the last 20 plus years, Bush is getting a "free pass" in his argument that the reason America has not been attacked is due to any action of his. Remember these facts:
    -9/11 was carried out by probably only 20 people...do we think that if Al Quaeda wanted to put in 100 more they couldn't have or even haven't?
    -UBL is very methodical...rest assured that if he had wanted to attack us again, he could have and would have
    --the worst thing, from his perspective, would be to stage another attack and bring the American people back together
    -AQ is spending us into oblivion
    -Bush created a breeding ground for new terrorists in Iraq

    UBL is WINNING the War on Terrorism against the US...with little expenditure, AQ (with the help from the current , inept Administration) has put the US on a war footing, nearly bandrupted us, watched our standing in the rest of the world deteriorate. UBL has stuck to his strategy and played us well. No...we have not been attacked again due to anything the Bush Admisnistration has done; we have not been reattacked because UBL chose not to.

  • Posted By: Trooper101st @ 12/24/2008 12:30:33 PM

    A NEO-CON wrote about this strategy. Why invade Iraq? The truths we seek will come out. Wat don't come out in the wash, comes out in the rinse. That smug, arrogant P.O.S Cheney should be the 1st one in shackles. REPUKES. Almost 5,000 KIA in Iraq. Bush & Co are MURDERERS. Thanx alot for sending us on a mission with no clear objective, you Retards. I voted for OBAMA and so did everyone else I know.

  • Posted By: JKLF-R @ 12/18/2008 5:45:49 PM

    In the history of mankind, civilizations emerged in various parts of the world in various eras which dominated the political social and economical values that they were based upon. All these civilization have one thing in common, they reached an optimum point in delivering to there societies that they had to offer but failed to sustain the progressive graph of their ascent, the reason being that the rulers and torch bearers of these civilization did not inculcate a cohesive social fabric of their heterogeneous societies that they had integrated physically by either force, conquest or missionary works.

    To inculcate this cohesiveness within heterogeneous societies it is important for countries like USA to take a strong position on human values rather than economic supremacy. United States still has not lost its position to lead the world. It can change the threats of coming era by adhering to basic Human values that its foundation was built.

    At present in this era we are moving ahead in our pursuit of knowledge within our physical universe .Its ever revealing new phenomenon???s and breathtaking new findings both in the far off space and in the depths of our oceans and land, are ever increasing challenges that human being of today is ready to take on.

    To sustain this upward progress of present human being we have to look at the probable pitfalls and abyss that this civilization may fall into. Nations in this era posses such weapons that can destroy this world twice over. We have political conflicts in many regions of the world that can cause enormous disability, chaos and disorder if left unattended. We have social injustices in the different parts of world, in the form of Caste in India, Color in West and Creed in China and belief in other parts of world. We have occupation in Palestine, Kashmir which jeopardizes any peace in Middle East and South Asia.

    In the name of democracy and freedom, we still persecute our fellow human beings for our vested interests or the interests of few. In the name of religion and national interest and its glory we still instill state terror and non state terror in our fellow human beings and take vengeance on innocent people.

    We still have not differentiated between a genuine aspiration of freedom of people and imposition of a school of thought be it economical political or religious through coercion. We have yet not narrowed the gap between the rich and poor. All these are some of the gravest issues that the present civilization has to cope up with and resolve, if mankind has to realize the dreams that it is capable of on this planet and beyond.

    These issues are not country specific or nation specific, these are global issues and need to be dealt with unified institutions of nations and countries globally.

  • Posted By: Repubssuck @ 12/04/2008 9:31:13 AM

    I have to tell you it's not a good morning for the GOP party of hate. I was mistaken when I said the Republican roles dwindled by 47,000 registered voters since 2007. it turns out it is 147,000 nation wide. In Florida the rolls shrunk by 30,000 while Democrat and Independent registration went through the roof., mostly spurred by the Hispanic communities. I know I said they would be able to hold their 2020 national convention in a Louisana Piggly Wiggly parking lot. I may have misspoken. Now they can hold it there without hampering Piggly Wiggly's drive thru business.

    • Posted By: Rocky2001 @ 12/04/2008 9:44:05 AM

      Rebubcocksucker?? What up?? We were thinking about holding our rallies at Sonny's BarB-Q but they are closing a bunch of those down here.....So we were thinking maybe your house instead???

      • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 12/04/2008 10:18:18 AM

        Rocky, you are an immature and disrespectful bore. Grow up for Pete's sake!

        • Posted By: Rocky2001 @ 12/04/2008 10:22:27 AM

          and you are a lonely fat chick that relies on the internet for human contact, but you don't see me complaining.
          BaaaaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaaaaWaaaaaa.....deep breath....BaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaaWaaaaaa.....Damn I'm tearing up!!

          • Posted By: 40YearR @ 12/04/2008 1:01:43 PM


            Hey Dude, I know you're just here to have fun, and you've probably seen Sheepfake's posts lately and have gotten the idea that stepping over the line is ok because Sheepfake thinks he can get away with it, but take it from me, this lady is serious that a$$holes are going to have it handed to them in ways they did not see coming. So cool it until the slaughter is over, ok? Oh, and by the way, take it from me, it's far from fat, way far from it, ok?...

            • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 12/15/2008 5:54:46 PM

              40YR- I know it is a bit late in coming- thank you!

            • Posted By: Rocky2001 @ 12/04/2008 1:26:20 PM

              Man you kids sure are thin skinned!!! LOL!!

              • Posted By: 40YearR @ 12/04/2008 1:34:59 PM



                If you have nothing to be concerned about, you also have nothing to fear...

                • Posted By: Rocky2001 @ 12/04/2008 1:47:26 PM

                  Hmmmm......seems I've heard that somewhere before.....LOL!!

                  • Posted By: 40YearR @ 12/04/2008 2:36:34 PM



                    Take me literally. It should be a comfort to you if you have nothing you thought you were hiding.

                    • Posted By: Rocky2001 @ 12/04/2008 3:21:13 PM

                      Network Engineers subscribe to the Underdog Philosophy!! LOL!!

                      • Posted By: 40YearR @ 12/04/2008 4:15:40 PM



                        This will not be decided by network engineers. I don't think you're the 'one', if that matters to anyone, but others will be able to determine for sure who it is..

                        • Posted By: Rocky2001 @ 12/04/2008 6:53:08 PM

                          Nice Matrix reference!!! Ever hear of a static IP??? Now think of the exact opposite.....LOL!!!

                  • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 12/04/2008 3:16:28 PM

                    Yeah, Ronald Reagan, IIRC.

            • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 12/04/2008 3:16:50 PM

              40YearR-you are right, Rocky is only having a little fun. He's not like that troll stalking Harley.

        • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 12/04/2008 11:02:19 AM

          The usual BS coming from you, chunky butt! I'm not lonely.. I do work alone most of the day and I like company..I'm not "fat" either. Ask A and a couple of others here who know me. I don't care though, say what you will...at the end fo the day, you need to think of yourself buddy....you come here to insult people almost daily. You used to be nice and fun, what happened? Did Obama's win make you a bitter sore loser? Whatever the case, you owe Repssuck an apology. PS I suspect you're bald and fat!

          • Posted By: Rocky2001 @ 12/04/2008 11:14:41 AM

            Shaven....not stirred!!! LOL!!

            • Posted By: 40YearR @ 12/04/2008 1:12:47 PM



              See mine below. Get the message?

            • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 12/04/2008 12:00:58 PM

              A bit too deep. Careful next time..you may get injured.

  • Posted By: karaswart @ 12/11/2008 10:43:15 AM


    http://www.genocidebangladesh.org/

  • Posted By: dirt @ 12/09/2008 9:34:11 PM

    Fareed Zakaria's analysis of growth rates is flawed and arrives at the wrong conclusion. If China's economy grows by 9 percent, and the United States' by 3 percent, then China's is 1.09 times larger and the United States' is 1.03 larger. Dividing 1.09 by 1.03, we find that China is growing about 1.058 times faster than the United States. Assuming the US GDP is 4.21 times as large as China's now, it will take about 25 years for China's GDP to catch up. If the rates change to 5 and 1 percent, then China will only be growing about 1.040 times faster than the United States, and will take about 37 years to catch up.

  • Posted By: M City John @ 12/09/2008 8:53:14 AM

    Fareed Zakaria is an excellent writer and often makes many good points. It is obvious, however, that mathematics is not is forte. When he writes that "For the next few years, American growth will likely be 1 percent and China's, by the most conservative estimates, 5 percent. So, China was growing three times as fast as the United States but will now grow five times as fast, which only brings closer the date when the Chinese economy will equal in size that of the United States." he is just plain wrong. A better, though still flawed, measure is the differnce in growth rates, not the ratio. Consider for instance if the US growth rate is 0% and China's growth rate is 1%. The ratio is infinite, yet the 1% difference shows that it would take a very long time for China to overtake the US.

  • Posted By: The genius @ 12/08/2008 11:21:02 AM

    "Let's not forget, what exactly at democrat Vudro Wilson of the USA have entered the First world war. The democrat Franklin Roosevelt was the initiator of the introduction of America in war with the hitlerite Europe, democrat Harry Truman has dumped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities, and very visible democrat John Kennedi has finished the world to « the Caribbean crisis ». Democrat Lindon Johnson has begun war in Vietnam, and democrat Bill Clinton bombed Yugoslavia.

    So will not be surprising if the democrat Barrack Obama will continue nice tradition of the predecessors. As it meanwhile does not have other output. To carry out the social reforms promised to it in conditions of an economic crisis all it is equally impossible ??? and war in fact it not only mixture for economy, but also opium for the angry voters."

  • Posted By: Tea6 @ 12/05/2008 3:07:40 PM

    First lesson: TRADE IMBALANCES TURN INTO BUBBLES WHICH POP AND BECOME ECONOMIC MELTDOWNS.

    • Posted By: Thevail @ 12/06/2008 3:33:12 PM

      now how do we get you into the government economic structure. Honestly it seems pretty simple, but they never seem able to get it.

  • Posted By: mikeslur @ 12/06/2008 11:36:29 AM

    Comment: We need to redistrict ((re)define political boundaries based upon demographics) the artifical states set up by the likes of Stalin and Churchhill. Many of the troubled areas of the world are riled by their antiquated rationals.

  • Posted By: mikeslur @ 12/06/2008 11:29:12 AM

    We need to dedistrict ((re)define political boundaries based upon demographics) the artifical staes set up bu the likes of Stalin and Churchhill. Much of the troubled areas of the world are riled by their antiqauted logics.

  • Posted By: The genius @ 12/06/2008 8:56:35 AM

    Trouble, trouble to America from political elites. There is in Russia such proverb " the Trouble from mind ". And so it now an image of the American policy. From extreme cunning and mind, together with cynicism the cocktail of all speeches and actions on a political floor of Washington has turned out. It brought though any advantage of America, widely eyes of all world however have opened. All have clearly understood already enough, than America breathes in the world. Remains some ally of the devoted USA who simply has no place to go. And to live independently they are not able. Here they also should choose stones more finely on which they fly together with the USA from tops to a precipice.
    Why a trouble from mind?
    Let's discuss.
    So, Iraq. It is quite obvious, that this war is an invention in interests of oil and military-technical elite of the USA which have helped to be selected Bush twice in an aura of presidency. And they, certainly, got for it of hundred billions. Oil has risen then in the price, deposits of easy extraction became an ancestral lands of the American oilmen, the charge of an ammunition and military technics became huge, as has claimed the same large state order for arms in some exclusive companies of the USA. They have achieved the, but that America has received. Let's count. And have received, probably, not less billion person on all planet which have taken a dislike to America strong. Certainly, this hatred or dislike is difficult for transferring to monetary figures, but all the same to count up it is possible. These people in relation to the USA in long-term in the life will influence negatively at a microlevel. Someone will refuse purchase of the American products, someone will draw caricatures on aggression of the USA, someone will not go and the USA, someone held a high post somewhere in the country will refuse rapproachements from the USA in favour of other states, someone to bank of "coca-cola" will count as drink of sinners from a hell, someone even will lift the weapon or will be engaged in criminal activity, harming to America, someone will be simple to abuse America or to sneer above it, and here then the damage can exceed some billions dollars. And, it so is volumetric and is imperceptible what to be reflected on America as turn of inexplicable failures, irrational bad luck.

  • Posted By: karaswart @ 12/05/2008 5:35:29 PM

    Comment: December 3rd to December 14th , 1971 is the time that the Pakistani Army Genocide of the Bangladeshi Muslims came to an end. 3 million Muslims were slaughtered by the Pakistani Army in 1971, historically the biggest genocide of Muslims.

  • Posted By: nobleatheist @ 12/05/2008 4:29:14 PM

    Could the US hypocrisy towards narcotics trade, illegal weapons trade, piracy and terrorism, change? The one who campaigns to become president is a different person than the one who assumes office. The US policy makers still see the world with a "socialist-threat" paranoia. The US is friends with Saudi Arabia, where women do not have equal citizen/human rights and they have strangulated the Cubans into extreme poverty.

  • Posted By: chris_bieber @ 12/05/2008 1:28:57 PM

    shill for MORE socialism and intervention...under the "Democratic" label.....more taxes more regimentation and more body bags....how Constitutional....

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 12/05/2008 3:01:10 PM

      LOL.

      Have you been paying attention for the last 7 years?

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 12/05/2008 2:36:27 PM

      There is really no room for you to talk if you support the rhetoric of the GOP. Obviously you don't see an issue with the last 8 years of "no accountabilty" and "no credibility" and the fuking mess we are in. If you are a Bush supported you have no credibility. It is such a flagrant disregard and a state of denial that leads people to spout this crp. If you want to call holding people accountable through intelligent regulations with teeth socialism, then I am a socialist.

      What a fuking joke!

  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 12/05/2008 12:23:19 PM

    fraudulent foxy zilcheria
    anyone who fixes a strategy without mentioning KASHMIR AND PALESTINE is a fraud and living in a fools world of his own creation ,
    not this world where india and israel have massacred millions of muslims in these muslim states with muslim majority with the blessings of american admin .
    what about the refugees and millions of them who are homeless and live in camps .
    look at the real milieu and take your zionist yankee short sighted specs off -
    will america ever accept if california was annexed by japan and alaska by russia and would they call the people fighting there terrorists .
    the same applies to kashmir and palestine
    cheerio and enjoy your weekend too

  • Posted By: GeorgeC_74 @ 12/04/2008 6:33:47 PM

    LOL, I just had a revelation. They stuck Obama in office to make up for Katrina. So now the minorities of the country will be preoccupied for another 8 years while the government dabbles in prostitution, drugs, money laundering, and murder. Pat yourselves on the back.

    • Posted By: whatisreal? @ 12/04/2008 6:50:11 PM

      How about if we kick you in the A$$, that would feel a lot better! LOL

  • Posted By: 40YearR @ 12/04/2008 5:08:47 PM



    Hafta run out for 'bout an hour. Won't be surprized if I see my effigy swinging in the wind when I come back.

  • Posted By: 40YearR @ 12/04/2008 5:08:22 PM



    Hafta run out for 'bout an hour. Won't be surprized if I see my effigy swinging in the wind when I come back.

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