Change Your Leaders, Not Your Light Bulbs.

When Widely Followed Public Figures Feel Free To Say Anything, Without Any Fact-checking, It Becomes Impossible For A Democracy To Think Intelligently About Big Issues.

I Think The Arab Awakening Has Changed Everything And I Think A Lot Will Depend On What People There Ask Of Us, May Be Nothing, It May Be A Lot. I Think That Really Depends How They Find Their Voice And What They See As Their Real Interest, And Hopefully That Would Be For More Schools And Not More Tanks.

No Two Countries That Both Had Mcdonald's Had Fought A War Against Each Other Since Each Got Its Mcdonald's

In Globalization 1.0, Which Began Around 1492, The World Went From Size Large To Size Medium. In Globalization 2.0, The Era That Introduced Us To Multinational Companies, It Went From Size Medium To Size Small. And Then Around 2000 Came Globalization 3.0, In Which The World Went From Being Small To Tiny.

I Could See America Playing A Slightly Smaller Role In The Middle East But I Would Not See Us Abandoning The Region And Just Say "oh," Like I Said, "china, Russia, It's Yours Now. Global Focus Is Just On Our Hemisphere." I Don't See That Happening.