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Title: How many ways can you say globalization?
Review: I was expecting great things from Mr. Friedman, but he spent 469 pages basically saying globalization is here --- duh! His thesis is that this opens up great opportunities both for businesses and for terrorists. He seems to have little sympathy for the person displaced by globalization and offers few if any words about ameliorating the plight of those who lose jobs to globalization. He also offers no real course of action to battling the use of globalization by terrorists -- only offering the observation that truly democratic nations with large Muslim populations (e.g., India) seem to spawn many fewer terrorists than non-democratic nations. I was very disappointed that Friedman spent so much time saying what we all know and almost no time exploring how we as nations or individuals should handle the problems as well as the benefits inherent in globalization.
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