Some favorite excerpts:
"Some comentators have argued that it's sexist to keep Sarah Palin under wraps, as if she were a delicate flower who might wilt under the bright lights of the modern media. But the more Palin talks, the more we see that it may not be sexist but common sense that's causing the McCain campaign to treat her like a time bomb.
"Can we now admit the obvious? Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president. She is a feisty, charismatic politician who has done some good things in Alaska. But she has never spent a day thinking about any important national or international issue, and this is a hell of a time to start.
"In these times, for John McCain to have chosen this person to be his running mate is fundamentally irresponsible. McCain says that he always puts the country first. In this important case, it is simply not true."
--Fareed Zakaria, "Palin is Ready? Please."
From an interview with Hamid Karzai, conducted by Fareed Zakaria:
FZ: Are you going to run again, Mr. President?
HK: I was asked this question yesterday and my answer was the poem by Robert Frost:
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep/But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep..."
FZ: So can I say yes, you are going to run again?
HK: Yes.
"Some comentators have argued that it's sexist to keep Sarah Palin under wraps, as if she were a delicate flower who might wilt under the bright lights of the modern media. But the more Palin talks, the more we see that it may not be sexist but common sense that's causing the McCain campaign to treat her like a time bomb.
"Can we now admit the obvious? Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president. She is a feisty, charismatic politician who has done some good things in Alaska. But she has never spent a day thinking about any important national or international issue, and this is a hell of a time to start.
"In these times, for John McCain to have chosen this person to be his running mate is fundamentally irresponsible. McCain says that he always puts the country first. In this important case, it is simply not true."
--Fareed Zakaria, "Palin is Ready? Please."
From an interview with Hamid Karzai, conducted by Fareed Zakaria:
FZ: Are you going to run again, Mr. President?
HK: I was asked this question yesterday and my answer was the poem by Robert Frost:
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep/But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep..."
FZ: So can I say yes, you are going to run again?
HK: Yes.
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I've gotten about 100 pages into Zakaria's The Future of Freedom and am eager to get my hands on The Post-American World. He's intelligent, level-headed, and I think has an original way of looking at and analyzing what's going on in the world and putting it in its larger historical context.
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