Sunday, December 5, 2010
RE THE GLOBALIZATION TRAP
The entire mainstream American government has also, most unfortunately, long been in
the Glob alization Trap.
Both parties have so long touted this panacea of free trade and Cobdenist pacification
(originally, long ago, 1950, in never never land, to fight Communism,
but transformed beyond recognition in the intervening decades),
that now that it is so obviously totally unwinding,
they really don't know what to do, where to run for cover,
except to blame the erstwhile partners in globalization crime,
most notably China, Japan, Korea, even India, will eventually come in for abuse, but also certain Middle East potentates, and others.
Even Russia, because it has bitten from the 'fruit of forbidden knowledge of freer trade', the original sin, is now to be tarred with the same brush of
'traitor to globalization'.
If the international Market State System 'system' somehow fails, it will be blamed on these erstwhile 'partners' not being willing, any longer,
to Glob alize enough for them.
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.
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