Suits make for good wife-beaters too!

Nice I dislike Ike.

His points are nuanced, largely correct, but NOT points I think he articulated strongly for in the broader media environment of 2003. That was a general failure with 90%+ of the media back then, and his failure; a failure highlighted in this interview where its very clear Zakaria has the academic and intellectual chops to offer the very views that were needed then. It points to a lack of courage; or to spin it, pragmatism given the climate in 2003. The older Hoffman cares less for such things, being an intellectual of the old guard, and spoke vigorously and freely. All rather instructive and invaluable for the historical record..

Zakaria would be another brown man in Canada or UK. Haha…I would like to see him try to be an analyst for BBC/CBC (LOL). I can’t stand him; but he does a excellent job of selling his “minority” background/story which other Desi groups in the US fail to do.

Zakaria has a quality for success in America’s media circus that is far more important that being right – he is adaptable. Being right results in unpopularity and not getting interviews; telling people what they want to hear means getting on TV in 2003, in 2008, and in all the years in between.

And with pervasive short-term memory, it seems to hardly dent one’s credibility either. Enough so that presidential candidates who are comparably good at image management make sure to get photographed with one’s books.

http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2003/03/13/2/a-dialogue-about-american-unilateral-action-in-iraq

Hoffman was spot on in his analysis of the worst-case scenario for Iraq (which did, indeed play out). Zakaria’s argument, at the time, for invading was a weak one, as amply demonstrated here. One hopes he has learnt from the wiser professor, whose advice we ignored in 2003 at our peril.

PS – Charlie Rose would, in later years, interview Hoffman again and remark on how these videos amply demonstrate that there were experts in international affairs, who understood the situation all too well, and warned of the very outcomes that occurred.

Don’t know about you lowlives, but I go to Men’s Wearhouse when I want to buy my Sunday afternoon Budlight-swilling couch-lounging attire. Suits make for good wife-beaters too!

GPS should have Tucker Carlson and James Carville on one team, and Paul Begala and Bob Novak on the other, bickering from Iraq to Rwanda to Kenya to Myanmar to North Korea, while they attempt to solve the
world’s problems with an entire range of techniques from Chamberlainian appeasement (aka talking – that reminds me, Kevin James would be good to have on this show too), using a small armed force of ex-South African mercenaries, Blackwater etc. With Fareed in the backdrop spouting inane coffee table tropes as always. It will be like Iraq, except they have just 1 hour a week, sort of like the Amazing Race. 22 countries in one season!

For sweeps week, they can have a cliff hanger where the losers are actually stoned – and not in the good way – in the GLOBAL! PUBLIC! SQUARE!