Thomas P.M. Barnett

[Chaerophon]

Hi,
Very good.  But which does he think are the horse and which the cart.  For on a simple reading, it seems that he is saying that prosperity brings peace.  I think that that is backwards, I think it is peace that brings prosperity.  And the impediments to peace are not poverty, not lack of globalization or connectivity, but bigotry, ideology (especially religious ideology), and, especially, ignorance.  To try to repair the 'gap' by imposing the results of prosperity rather than its causes brings to mind the old joke about the floggings continuing until moral improves.

--Pete
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Well said!