[Mortimer Snavely]

"Globalization," as generally understood, does not consider the nation state of any importance, and presumes that political power holders have no influence upon economic activity. As a result the USA is exporting its manufacturing and research and development wholesale to national socialist and authoritarian states such as Red China. As I have posted elsewhere, I'm glad that no one had these bizarre ideas in the Thirties. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan would have been nearly impossible to beat had today's ideas been implemented then.

[RockyMtnMan]

They are gambling with the idea that strong economic ties now will transcend global ambitions in the future.

Corporations benefit directly in the short term from offshoring where laborers are expected to wait and hope for new opportunities to be generated in the future.

Sounds as if the globalists are telling us to gamble with the future based on their current profit ambitions. I never considered gambling a conservative trait.

[GOP_1900AD]

And by extension to what you wrote, the Economists who range in terms of nominal political label from so called "liberals" such as Thomas L. Friedman, to, so called "conservatives" and "libertarians" such as some on this thread, will be found culpable for the inevitable wars of mass destruction which will come due to their blind faith in Economism. Imagine that post war world for a minute. Justice will be very rough.