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The United States benefits mightily from a globalized world. Our ties through trade, in fact, have made us more safe as our trading partners become more prosperous, open and democratic. But our politicians and pundits should know that we can't pick and choose. If we decide to deny firms from developing nations -- Arab, Asian or otherwise -- from investing in the United States, those firms will go elsewhere. And we will pay the price -- in higher interest rates, higher inflation, lower stock prices, less participation in a world growing more and more exuberant, creative and exciting.

I was listening to this guy on Laura Ingraham's show on my way home from work. He's your typical super-capitalist who sees nothing wrong with making money by any means provided regardless of who it hurts here in America.

Notice in his closing paragraph he talks about how "our trading partners become more prosperous" but doesn't mention anything about how Americans, in general, have become more prosperous? Why? Because the rampant prosperity in the U.S. is limited to a small percentage. Most average Americans have both parents working to try to maintain the same lifestyle their parents had on one income.

He came across as arrogant and condescending. For example he writes: "Globalization, according to Dobbs, Schumer & Co., is a one-way street. We can buy you (that is, your businesses, your oil, your toys, your electronics), but you can't buy us."

What on earth is wrong with that? How are globalists any different from the liberals who give away our national secrets on the premise that there "should be a level playing field"?

All the while, as they point out our "jingoism, nationalism and over-zealous patriotism" as a bad thing (the same as the liberals) foreign countries like China, Mexico, Malaysia, etc. don't care if the playing field is level.

Mr. Glassman is just as denegrating as any liberal when he scorns the fact that I, and people like me, want America to be first. Not the schoolyard equivalent of t-ball where they don't keep score so as not to offend the other players. Which is exactly his rationale in his piece.

I have been on the fence about this deal but if a rabid super-capitalist like Glassman is for it then I have to be against it. I want America to be the biggest, baddest, toughest country in the world. By sharing our secrets, opening our borders, fostering the outsourcing of our jobs by declaring "free trade" and the continued degredation of our national identity we are simply going to evolve into a nation that is the mean of the rest of the world. A world where we can't be better than the next guy for fear of insulting him we will end up be just a medium fish in a pond of medium fishes - not the big fish.