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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (31383)	11/10/2006 1:54:44 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541602

When I made the comment about Dallas, I had in mind my trip back to my 50th high school reunion in a small town west of Waco. I had not been back for a reunion since I graduated. The ceremonies were elaborate--four different meals, talks, much visiting. But each event began with a prayer, a very Protestant prayer. Religion is very much a part of public life. And a narrow view of it at that. I discovered I genuinely like my classmates. But as I go back to visit I have to clinch my teeth through some of this. They know my position. Beyond that it's not good to go. As for Friedman, I loved his book, From Beirut to Jerusalem. Just a great, great book. The first globalization book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, told only half the story in my view. Only the cheery side. As for The World is Flat, I thought the first half was just terrific emphasizing, in a different fashion, the same points that he made in his previous book. The second half just seemed to me to be filling. Old news. But, again, I thought he got only half the story. None of the genuinely negative. Authors like Kynge, though he writes from a global financial perspective since ran the Financial Times bureau in China, pay attention to the negative consequences both in and outside China. His concern, which underlines my own, is what happens to the increasing number of workers in the developed world who lose their jobs directly because of globalization. Friedman's book ignores that. But his recent columns are beginning to take that into account more and more. It won't surprise you to know that I just quit reading him when he kept iterating and reiterating his support for Bush's invasion of Iraq.