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yeahYeah · 10-09-2008, 10:50 AM

Amazon.com: The Post-American World: Fareed Zakaria: Books

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Amazon.com Review
Book Description
"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures. He sees the "rise of the rest"—the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, and many others—as the great story of our time, and one that will reshape the world. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and most advanced cell phones are all being built outside the United States. This economic growth is producing political confidence, national pride, and potentially international problems. How should the United States understand and thrive in this rapidly changing international climate? What does it mean to live in a truly global era? Zakaria answers these questions with his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination.

tomfoolery · 10-09-2008, 10:52 AM

Not terribly surprised....

yeahYeah · 10-09-2008, 11:29 AM

scary eh? how can this man be allowed to run this nation?

redhatchbox · 10-09-2008, 11:51 AM

Obamanation is coming... wait for it...

Brickboy240 · 10-09-2008, 12:42 PM

Were you expecting him to be carrying a copy of "Das Kapital?"

LOL

Figures he would be reading this book. I'll bet he also has a copy of Thomas Friedman's books in the limo as well.

- Brickboy240

**LUVMYSIGP225** · 10-09-2008, 12:46 PM

Maybe he is just researching how to prevent it from happening. I am sure he has his, I mean our best interests at heart.

**jmichna** · 10-09-2008, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Brickboy240

Were you expecting him to be carrying a copy of "Das Kapital?"...

Naw... "Mein Kampf" (apparently, the German translation of "Dreams From My Father" or some such thing).

Brickboy240 · 10-09-2008, 01:16 PM

Mein Kampf does not suit Obama's way of thinking. True, Obama does have some racist tendencies and God knows he has hung out with some very anti-white people, but he is more of a socialist that a racist fascist.

Seriously...I have read both books.

- brickboy240

yeahYeah · 10-16-2008, 04:31 PM

Bump...

**ForTehNguyen** · 10-16-2008, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by LUVMYSIGP225

Maybe he is just researching how to prevent it from happening. I am sure he has his, I mean our best interests at heart.

if thats the case he should've read Ron Pauls book The Revolution on how to fix everything back to the way it used to be. But socialism and free market arent buddies with each other

10-09-2008, 10:52 AM	#2
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Brickboy240 XDTalk 10K Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Houston, TX, USA Posts: 14,154	Were you expecting him to be carrying a copy of "Das Kapital?" LOL Figures he would be reading this book. I'll bet he also has a copy of Thomas Friedman's books in the limo as well. - Brickboy240 __________________ We've gone from Neo-Cons to Neo-Coms. Neither are desirable, if you ask me. Es mejor morir a pie que vivir arrodillado Volvo...the Swedish Brick!
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LUVMYSIGP225 XDTalk 5K Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Rubber City, USA Posts: 8,536	Maybe he is just researching how to prevent it from happening. I am sure he has his, I mean our best interests at heart. __________________ Wanna talk Soviet guns? Got an A.K. or a SKS? WWW.SOVIET-STEEL.COM
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10-09-2008, 01:16 PM	#8
Brickboy240 XDTalk 10K Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Houston, TX, USA Posts: 14,154	Mein Kampf does not suit Obama's way of thinking. True, Obama does have some racist tendencies and God knows he has hung out with some very anti-white people, but he is more of a socialist that a racist fascist. Seriously...I have read both books. - brickboy240 __________________ We've gone from Neo-Cons to Neo-Coms. Neither are desirable, if you ask me. Es mejor morir a pie que vivir arrodillado Volvo...the Swedish Brick!
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yeahYeah XDTalk 10K Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Vegas Posts: 14,964	Bump... __________________ MOΛΩN ΛABÉ "I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility against every form of Tyranny over the mind of man" ~ Thomas Jefferson The path to enlightenment is littered with bodies of the ignorant.
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