Thomas Friedman in the Globalization trap

"Fifty years ago, the world was shaped..... We have been steadily losing that leverage because....... of our twin addictions......WikiLeaks show just what crow we have to eat because of that."

We have been losing leverage because of the project itself!

He selects just two reasons for the failure of a policy with much broader and complex causes. he fails to attack the project itself, which is where anyone really hoping to understand the problem must begin.

Big globalization advocate has to backpedal, no other direction for him to go now; pundited himself into

the Glob alization Trap

Term search "Trading American Interests", for a short article setting out the highlights of the process, since WW II.

The addictions Friedman talks about were originally instituted as part of a strategic policy.