An Indian Muslim whose father was an Islamic scholar.
Read the reviews of this book. Zer0 reading this to try to figure out how to achieve his goals?
Fareed Zakaria is a member of the PNAC: Project for the New American Century. The PNAC advocates using the US military to overthrow foreign governments to enforce American economic interests around the globe, no matter how negative the consequences. The PNAC advocates this foreign policy because there is no check on the United States after the collapse of the USSR. After the PNAC-Iraq campaign didn’t turn out to be as cheap and easy as the PNAC and Zakaria thought it would be, Zakaria “changed” his opinion. How interesting; how convenient. A journalistic version of the Peter Principle. This author’s PNAC membership is relevant to his latest book.
I decided to read “The Post American World,” by Fareed Zakaria, after seeing a picture of then US Presidential candidate Barak Obama carrying the book in his hand as he deboarded a plane while on the campaign trail. I was curious to see what this presidential candidate was reading, and why he would read a book that would be predicting the decline of America, the country he wanted to head up.
Page 31 contains missinformation regarding the polar caps melting. He also incorrectly refers to Singapore as a country on page 102. I believe Singapore is a city, not a country. I could go on and on regarding the lies and untruths, but I believe you get the point.
The most outlandish assumption made by the book is that the US will no longer be a dominant force in world politics, being replaced by India and China. India? With it’s delapidated airports, crumbling roads, vast slums and impoverished villages. The India with containing several Nigerias within it? India, with 300 million people living on less than one dollar per day? India, home to 40% of the world’s poor and the country with the second highest population of HIV-positive people? That India is going to the the country to take over the world? Huh? India, whose population goes down to a river to bathe? Yea, right, they are going to take over the world. Give me a break!
All you need to know about the author’s agenda is that he is from India. That is why he proposes that India will take over the world.
The book is a joke; an agenda pushed forward hoping people like Obama will buy into it. Don’t!
Save your money. If want want a good laugh, read the book, but check it out from the library.
