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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48419)	4/30/2005 4:19:31 AM
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Taiwan Nationalists reconcile with China Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, and Lien Chan, the leader of the opposition Nationalist Party in Taiwan, formally ended decades of hostility with a nationally televised handshake Friday. iht.com

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48419)	4/30/2005 4:19:31 AM
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On- It's a Flat World, After All, By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: April 3, 2005 n 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail for India, going west. He had the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. He never did find India, but he called the people he met ''Indians'' and came home and reported to his king and queen: ''The world is round.'' I set off for India 512 years later. I knew just which direction I was going. I went east. I had Lufthansa business class, and I came home and reported only to my wife and only in a whisper: ''The world is flat.'' And therein lies a tale of technology and geoeconomics that is fundamentally reshaping our lives -- much, much more quickly than many people realize. It all happened while we were sleeping, or rather while we were focused on 9/11, the dot-com bust and Enron -- which even prompted some to wonder whether globalization was over. Actually, just the opposite was true, which is why it's time to wake up and prepare ourselves for this flat world, because others already are, and there is no time to waste. nytimes.com No one is a bigger player than Americans today, what a defective statement to make by FAREED ZAKARIA on the book review of "It's a Flat World, After All, By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN" - United States had forgotten to globalize itself?" "What created the flat world? Friedman stresses technological forces. ... Friedman explains the importance of the development of 'work flow platforms,' software that made it possible for all kinds of computer applications to connect and work together, which is what allowed seamless cooperation by people working anywhere. ... "China and India loom large in Friedman's story because they are the two big countries benefiting most from the flat world. ... [W]ill it turn out that, having globalized the world, the United States had forgotten to globalize itself?" Continue reading... By getting involved in denying the bandits sanctuaries of terror, the world is moving ahead in search of nirvana, but these safe havens of tyrannies and banditry are the biggest threat to a globalized world and US is very much helping it together to sew it, the myopias cannot put up or envision the help being rendered. The slant that Fareed highlighted in this book review brought to me the dawn of reality that even the most enlightened cannot eye things in full perspective, a terror infested society and poverty stricken society like that of India and China cannot play a global role it has to be peace and equal opportunity, the two things will help the nations grow in a flat world lore equitably. The loss of Alqaeda sanctuaries in Waziristan and Karakorum has a direct bearing on security and development of Indian and China. That happened under US tutelage, the terror elimination part of globalization efforts are very much American led.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48419)	5/1/2005 8:13:25 PM
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"...remind us of bankruptcy of the baathists and highlight to mankind that the regime who had no interest in its own people but to ‘only’ rule them through tyranny..." -------------------------------------------- "In one blast, the attacker failed to fully detonate the explosives inside his car outside an American base in Baghdad, the military said in a statement. U.S. soldiers pulled the driver out of his burning car, and the man later said he was forced to carry out the attack to protect kidnapped family members, according to the statement." washingtonpost.com In business one talks about how different organizations each have their own 'corporate culture'...it is easy to see that Saddam's 'culture' of bloody tyranny is still operating even though he is in jail. I am hoping that all we are seeing with this latest surge in violence is the frantic last ditch efforts to upset the new government before it can really get going...time will tell. As for 'flat world', how can one hope to have an all inclusive, world-wide economy without having all inclusive, world-wide property owners who are free to pursue their own dreams??