Who Was that Incredible Truthteller on The Today Show?

Wow, did anyone else see this?

I didn't catch his name but he talked about how fast the U.S. has fallen behind as a world power. He has a book out. I believe he said he became intrigued with the subject when he had a conversation with an Asian businessman who told him how the U.S. had been aced out on virtually every front. The author said, "Well, we still have Vegas!" and the businessman replied, "Sir, Vegas doesn't even make the top 15 gambling spots."

Then the interviewer asked the author why he thought this happened and he responded that we're too busy talking about things like Obama's pastor!

I wish I knew who this guy was! I want to read his book!!

Of course, go to their site and try to track it down--there's nothing there on him and there isn't even a category under which someone like this writer would fall. Pathetic:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032633/

If anyone else saw this segment and can add some info, please do so! This writer is definitely backing up what we've been saying about how Republican tactics have ruined our country.



Cher

hopefully someone caught it.:bounce:

They do have a reference to that book on their site.

:hi:

Fareed. I see him on teevee from time to time and he always seems to be right on the money as far as where we are at this point in history. I think I'll order the book.

Wouldn't it be nice for Americans to leave the world policing to somebody else for a change and channel all our money and energies into helping our own people?

Fareed Zakaria's website and book:
http://www.fareedzakaria.com/books/index.html

He's a regular on the Daily Show. Stewart seems to like him. I expect him to be on to discuss this book too

Just got an email about it.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/index.jhtml

as one of the oh so imperious backers of the Iraq debacle,
now he wonders what's wrong with America, what's wrong with the
media.

he seems to have a good read on what's happening. I didn't know he supported the war. That could change my perception of him.

before it wasn't cool to be one any longer.

he realized the error early on, but has never
acknowledged his complicity as far as I know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fareed_Zakaria

While Zakaria initially supported using military force against Iraq, he argued for a United Nations-sanctioned operation and occupation with a much larger force (approximately 400,000 troops). He also called for a Bosnia or Kosovo-style occupation that was international, rather than American, in nature. He wrote a Newsweek cover-essay the week the Iraq war began entitled "The Arrogant Empire", which detailed the failures of the Bush foreign policy in the run-up to the war. He was an early and aggressive critic of the occupation, arguing against the disbanding of the Iraqi army and bureaucracy, which the administration accomplished under the guise of "de-Baathification". He predicted that accelerating the build-up of the Iraqi military would create a Shia and Kurdish army that would exacerbate the sectarian tensions in the country. Four months into the occupation, his columns bore such titles as "Iraq Policy is broken," and in September of 2003 he wrote a cover story for Newsweek entitled "So What's Plan B?" In February of 2005, the week before Iraq's elections, he wrote "...no matter how the voting turns out, the prospects for genuine democracy in Iraq are increasingly grim." In his October 2006 Newsweek cover essay, Zakaria called for a reduction in American troops in Iraq to 60,000 by the end of 2007.

Here's the video of the interview: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24465090#24465090

His book is called The Post-America World: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24428733/

I can always count on DU to be on top of it. :)

There are six pages of video clips of him at youtube!

I'm sorry to hear he was a war backer. It sure didn't take a genius to see through that scam back then. What on earth was he thinking?



Cher