tophatter,
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This author must be blind or something...
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we somehow lived with the soviet union, which had more WMDs than iran will ever even imagine of. which committed mass murder on a scale that iran also could not contemplate. which challenged US policy at every angle, and not only threatened war, sometimes even came damn close to starting one. which had the resources, the empire, and the will, neither of which iran has shown (would the USSR have negotiated with the EU, US, and UN about unilaterally giving up nukes?), which had an ideology that directly contrasted to that of the US, an ideology i would remind you had a FAR greater attraction than that of radical islam (not to mention iran's decided specialty, radical shia islam).
anyway, here's a brief biographical sketch of the author in question. and as a foreign policy professional, i can assure you that his works and articles have a reach beyond mere popular reading: they are often used as textbooks in the foreign policy field. to show his ideological bent, he identifies as a neo-reaganite; his works were especially popular among administration officials circa 2002-2003, as he was one of the most eloquent proponents of the Iraq War.
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Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International, overseeing all Newsweek's editions abroad. He writes a regular column for Newsweek, which also appears in Newsweek International and often The Washington Post. He is a member of the roundtable of ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanapoulos" as well as an analyst for ABC News. And he is the host of a new weekly PBS show, "Foreign Exchange" which focuses on international affairs.
His most recent book, "The Future of Freedom," was published in the spring of 2003 and was a New York Times bestseller and is being translated into eighteen languages. He is also the author of "From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role" (Princeton University Press), and co-editor of "The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World" (Basic Books).
Zakaria has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the webzine Slate. He has won several awards for his columns and essays, in particular for his October 2001 Newsweek cover story, "Why They Hate Us." In 1999, he was named "one of the 21 most important people of the 21st Century" by Esquire Magazine.
Prior to being at Newsweek, Zakaria was managing editor of Foreign Affairs, the leading journal of international politics and economics. He has also taught international relations and political philosophy, in various capacities, at Harvard, Columbia, and Case Western universities. He currently serves on the boards of Yale University, the Trilateral Commission, and the Council of Foreign Relations among others.
He received a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. He lives in New York City with his wife, son and daughter.
Last updated: May 2006