We need to send the message that anyone who orders suicide bombings against Americans, or protects those who do, commits suicide himself. And U.S. ma… - Thomas Friedman

Now we've entered Globalization 3.0, and it is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny.

We've teed up this situation for Iraqis, and I think the next six months really are going to determine whether this country is going to collapse into three parts or more or whether it's going to come together.

You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century—when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all—and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?