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  • USpolitic is the personified evil and the biggest enemy from all people over the world and the usamericans dont understand that they're governed by the enemy that's a shame

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  • Very clever, even if I am absolutely uncomfortable with the idea of leaving a nation in charge.

  • 5:47 Frankly we do it better than anybody..... !!!!!.... wow.... this guy seemed on to until then but if the US military think they keep peace better than anybody then they are so far off the planet that no wonder they screw everything up in the transition phase. Completely. Again and again. A bit of humility and honesty and those guys might learn a thing or two from other countries.

  • So the US isn't going to stop raping nations in the near future. Here naiive me was thinking that they learned something from the Afghanistand and Iraq wars...to see that they have now raped Libya. The only reason Asia is saved is because of India and China. I can't wait for the next 50 years to speed by

  • The world would feel a lot more safe if the US was disarmed. So short-sighted, silly and pop-culture politics driven. Not much fear now though. Older, wiser, more philosophic nations are on the rise. These funny puppets can be forgotten soon. I will be able to feel safe and vindicated before I die, see how the 700 million westerners abuse the rest of us as a group...nine-tenths of the world

  • Brilliant, I have read all three of his books. As a republican, strongly supporting a Dem is hard but he is so right. The world is a dangerous place where the strong still win. These ideas bring closer to a safer world than we have today, and allow us to grow as a world civilization. I think every High School kid should have to watch this just as many times as they have to hear about Darwin.

  • Brilliant, I have read all three of his books. As a republican, strongly supporting a Dem is hard but he is so right. The world is a dangerous place where the strong still win. These ideas bring closer to a safer world than we have today, and allow us to grow as a world civilization. I think every High School kid should have to watch this just as many times as they have to hear about Darwin.

  • sick 12thcentury gay society idioligy

    YOU are not part of his vision

    welcome to slavery people

  • It worries me how such a serious topic was received like a stand up comedy routine, and it worries me more that many of the audience giving him a standing ovation are some of the more influential and/or highly regarded members of society.

  • @mrbenderson005 yea its creepy how much he joked around but he eats and breathes this stuff so im sure he dead serious

  • @resonancecascade89 wrong number

  • So, he says "there's no one we can't take down" and as the old adage goes "every civilization must fall" we must fall like old civilizations on ourselves because we are so idiotic within our own ranks that we fight amongst ourselves. Why not unite and become a great nation? Because we've all grown selfish.

  • This just in: Fat assed Psycopath has ear of Pentagon.

  • Can somebody jail this guy. He is insane

  • @iBiryukov unlike you shithole Nation we don't just put people in jail that we don't like.

  • @Royak I didn't say anything about any nation. I said about 1 guy in particular. If you cannot hold a polite conversation, don't talk at all.

  • what a clown.

  • This guy has it figured out. Now if we can just get our leaders to listen to him.

  • Is this the New World Order ? and is China in or out of this sandbox ?

  • @mgarygrant out....china is nothing compared to holland......

  • @mgarygrant why does this nwo conspiracy theory seem to follow me wherever i go?

  • what a group of buffoons i dont think i laughed once at this entire lecture. american's are retarded

  • @turdlinger5000 "What a group of Buffoons. I don't think I laughed once at (during?) this entire lecture. Americans are retarded." - There you go, you will do a better job telling people they are retarded if you don't sound like a retard yourself.

  • @marleysalemmango88 you sir are a moron

  • @turdlinger5000 That's the best you can do? How pitiful of you.

  • @turdlinger5000 that's b/c your too stupid to understand. cehck out what the TED conference is and then see how much of 'buffoons' you think those people are.

  • @Royak ahhh go suck a dick

  • i didnt quite understand why he included the Marines with Sys Admin, is that so they can be there to protect the others in Sys Admin?

  • @slovakmath Yes you have it. That is it Marines would be security for Sys Admin, similar to how they now are security for U.S. Embassies overseas.

  • 13:15 Why does he keep referring to 9/11 as if the Afghanistan war was a result of 9/11 whereas in reality it was planned during Clinton's administration, well before 2001?

  • @optimistsRUS they have a plan for the invasion of almost anywhere. I'm sure they had plans to invade Iraq for many years beforehand as well but the plans are contingent on the future. You don't think they have a plan to invade Iran or North Korea, maybe even Canada (probably not)? Are they really going to invade these countries? Who knows. I hope not but its not like the pentagon isn't going to do its homework.

  • 10:30 "Would you like Mugabe gone? Would you like Kim Jong-il gone? He killed about 2 million people..."

    What about the military that has toppled more than 50 govts around the world, attacked more than 50 countries in the last 50 years, continuously bombed one place or another for more than 50 years, and killed many more millions than Kim Jong-il, and has more than 700 bases in more than 160 countries around the world, would you like that occupying force gone?

  • @optimistsRUS It's not going to go away, so would you like to contextualize it throughout the world, especially since whenever there's a conflict, some nation or other will be lobbying America to break out the Leviathan?

  • @jtheyellow

    So anyone who is not white and not English-speaking is a Leviathan... There was no conflict in Iran in 1953 except that an honest Iranian democratically elected President wanted to use Iran's oil for its people, CIA went out and overthrew him in a coup, installed a puppet king who oppressed Iranians until they overthrew him in a bloodless coup in 1979 revolution, what part do you call a "conflict?"

    The same is the story of dozens of other countries.

  • @optimistsRUS

    best reply by far.

    its always nice to take a step back and look at the big picture

  • What is this warmonger doing at TED talks?

    What's good you can do with war? Kill 4-6 million innocent Vietnamese, Cambodians, attack innocent Iraqis & kill one million , occupy Afghanistan to control the largest oil and gas resources in the world.

    6:50 "Like Saddam.. people who kill in hundreds of thousands, or millions..." It was this warmonger's senior partner Daddy Bush, Kissinger etc gave weapons to Saddam to kill millions.

    8:21 Intl Criminal Court, take Bushes and Kissingers to the court!

  • Have any of you arm chair strategists actually read his book? He's been doing this for a very long time. And considering that the airforce makes his lecture a requirement for becoming a general officer it's safe to say he knows more about it than you do.

  • Honestly, I don't think Dr. Barnett is a salesman. I think he's so incredibly skilled at giving this power point, that he's able to pack everything he needs to say into the 20 minute duration. In any other video featuring him, he's not nearly so fast paced.

  • This motherfucker isn't any smarter because he calls everything a 'space.'

  • Nice ideas...the question that needs to be asked is...WHY? It's none of our damn business to police the world.

    The 2nd question is...HOW MUCH? Sorry, but we can't afford it.

  • See WikiLeaks recent 'Operation Empire Challenge' release.

  • This talk ruled.

  • excellent

  • This is the worst presentation I've ever experienced. Chalk-full of ridiculous heady jargon. Leviathans and system admins? Even if you're familiar with Thomas Hobbes the connection is distracting at best. Sure, he's funny, if you like insane and completely mad.  This guy played with his marbles and lost them.

  • Sickness, pure sickness...this guy has it spewing through and out of him. Making money off death and laughing about it. He will burn.

  • @blite13 Did you even watch the video? You seem confused... and also violent. Scary...

  • @Wavesonics I wouldn't hurt a bug, unless it attacked me first. You are confused, you love killing and oppression, you love false wars for profit and power, just like this dick. This guys whole purpose is to create war and profit from war. He speaks about Orgs like Blackwater and they laugh? They laugh about sniping out people and paying for it...that is murder you asshole. This guy makes a false reality to get money, to sell his product, and you want this guy being your 'leader'?

  • You know what is really funny?! The Afghans have defeated every invasion force like Napoleon, the Mongol Empire, the British, Russia, ect. And they did not need to steal 2.3 trillion dollars unaccounted for, as the US Defense department has done, nor do they need to overhaul their military institution. Good luck with that.

  • @dinogrower it's incredible. what did all these nations see in this desert land? there is nothing in afghanistan right?

  • This all entertaining but the information is not really anything that most people can apply to their own lives. Its good for a laugh. Not worth much more than that. And good luck with dealing with the rift between the religion of Islam and Westerner civilization. A second peace keeping institution is not going to do shit for that.

  • Unquestioned arrogance is the first step to the systematic destruction of life itself. This mentality is detrimental to every one of us. By the way everybody..."you can't save the world from itself" and trying to do so is a failure from the beginning.

  • He's probably a racist.

  • you're probably retarded; I know you stupid and childish and unable to think of an even vaguely logical or coherent argument against his ideas.

  • @TheNewAlias you're probably retarded; I know you stupid and childish and unable to think of an even vaguely logical or coherent argument against his ideas.

  • That man is brutally direct and sure of his view on the world. I'm not sure I like all the views or opinions but still an interesting talk.

  • Wow.

  • This guy is deeply unhappy, and not healthy.

  • @Zzozze I seriously think you hit the nail on the head. His entire presentation exudes discord.

  • 4:17 Don't fire into civilians, starve them with self righteous Sanctions.

    This guy's a SOCIOPATH - glibly talking about MURDERING Innocent people for PROFIT. He buys the BS that our guv /colleges/media sell him about the Necessity of violence to solve problems. Minimal Rule Sets? Privatized Armies? Corporate peace partners? How Fascist & Orwellian.

    Warring for Peace makes as much sense as Fucking for Virginity.

    This Caveman Paradigm has got to go. Ever heard of Zeitgeist Addendum?

  • He isn't talking about making profit, and says absolutely nothing about sanctions or privatized armies or corportate peace partners (he says coalition partners). Like Zeitgeist you're making shit up. The military don't do sanctions, that's the politcians. They don't make profit. That's the politicians. He is talking about the military's need to adapt so they can stop the next war from becoming another Vietnamn or Iraq. Whether you agree with him or not, it's a start at least.

  • I've been following this stuff long enough to interpret the Coded Language he uses. Just b/c he doesn't say something overtly, doesn't mean it's not part of the plan. What stuff is Zeitgeist making up? Can you site specific examples? He's talking about the whole foreign policy pie here, not just the military part. It's a start toward more war and less "Hey why don't we do this without murdering millions?" War is a FAILURE to solve your problems creatively. It is the ignorant, caveman approach.

  • @kingofthebrittains

    what are you talking about.

  • @xenophon86 Hey Xeno, JD here, I'm taking about his semantics. He's a salesman pitching a NWO approved "solution". He's a"Security" strategist so his whole context is old no matter how new he claims it is. This is just a different way to perpetuate control of the many by the few. The pentagon wouldn't hire him if his goals didn't match theirs in the long run. Sys Admin is another term for people policing each other for the overlords. This is not a world I want to live in!

  • @Deadf00l

    The next war? Haha it wouldn't suprise me if this has already been planned out. Are you American? Your country isn't going to be having many more wars, if so get them in quick before China takes over as economic champ, they won't be letting you invade for resources! Iraq still amazes me. No one voted for it, it wasn't the home of the Taliban, Pakistan is (but they have nukes so can't really invade them), it really was so the US had another 20 years of oil consumption!

  • Not American no. But nice making assumptions like that. And I didn't agree with Iraq either. But I'm not niave enough to assume their won't be any more wars in the future either. It's human nature, whether it's the US, China, Russia, or any number of rogue states that like causing trouble once in a while. kingofthebrittains can call them cavemen all he likes, but their the ones with the guns so why should they give a shit? You convince people to drop their weapons, someone else will pick them up

  • And as much as I think the US needs to look before they leap when it comes to going to war (which is what this guy was saying in the video "don't plan to win the war unless you plan to win the peace". I'd much rather they were the ones who were in a position to police the world rather than China. Better the devil you know and all that.

  • @Deadf00l

    Better the devil I know? Is that a dig at me being English? Fair play, we're not exactly saints. Crusades etc. And I wouldn't say nice of me to assume, which I confess to doing a little, although I did ask, and the small assumption was based on your grammar, which isn't an insult. Yes, China could have a better human rights record, and should officially join the capitalist world, but I doubt they will exert their influence like the US has.

  • It wasn't a dig, I was just using the phrase. Sorry if it came across like that. I'm English too by the way.

  • @Deadf00l

    I'm not saying or believing that there won't be any more war either, the way things are I'd imagine there may be many more in my lifetime. I agree that it is human nature to an extent...I have never personally felt the urge to war or fight so this isn't in all humans, which means that really, it isn't rogue states that cause trouble, its people. Individuals. Does that require an invasion, or 'occupation'? or just the removal of the Individual from power?

  • You are right, not everyone is violent. But individuals with power, good or bad, still have their followers.

  • @Deadf00l

    Sorry for assuming there mate! And you're right they do. I think theres also this hazy middle ground where people have followings or agendas, which aren't necessarily bad, but are carried out for wrong reasons, or in unintentional ignorance of something which in hindsight, would have made them change their minds. I think it's this middle ground which is fracturing society in many different areas, from culture to media to social ideals and practices. I know thats pretty vague...

  • @Deadf00l

    ...and could be explained further but needs research! I have to say these TED talks are brilliant though, always provoke discussion and debate, and I've learned something new, often multiple new things in every video!

  • @dynamitefan8

    He's been researching it for fifteen years. He only has a limited amount of time.

  • @Deadf00l

    Is it power, or the position of power, that induces this urge for war as a reaction to an event? Maybe positions of such power should not be given to people. Throughout history this has led to repeated abuse of said positions. Why fight for these resources when it all gets traded anyway?

  • sick bastard

  • 1:36 FUCK YEAH!

  • I read in a 1912 book a one paragraph proposal on how to stop war.

    Consider that most wars are orchestrated by the top 1% of the population who are also the ones who mainly benefit from the war.

    2. Not only are wars destructive but they are ususally not paid for at the time but laid on the national debt which causes inflation which is an effective tax on the poor.l

    Suggestion: Charge the top 1% for the full cost of war during the war.

    RESULT? hmmmmm.

  • The problem is that the bottom 99% votes for war. They should pay for sanctioning it.

  • @ PlatoCantRepent

    Who votes for war?? NO ONE voted for the invasions and murdering in the middle east, certainly not the people who pay the taxes that pay for it.

  • @TheWintersstudios We actually already do that.... check out how federal tax works in the United States and you will see. And yet war has not still not magically disappeared. It never will.

  • Like what he says or not, you have to admit the man has some amazing skills with PowerPoint.

  • 8:20

    In other words the argument is, if the will of the people was removed from the equation then they wouldn't need to invent boogie men or blow up sky scrapers in NY to manufacture consent? Hardly supporters of Democracy as manufactured consent is anti-Democratic.

    completely removing our armed forces from the reach of an elected official!!

    Well why not just explain how you really feel. /s

    If your business is war any reason for war will do and Democracy is an obstacle.

  • This guy is a cross between a trigger happy marine, a mad scientist, and a pyramid salesman.

  • or like Norman Angel, with nukes!

  • a mix for an amazing war adviser...id love to see him in the white house giving advice...he can kick some sense into obama

  • @richardcadbury Bernett said we need a Dept of Everything Else (several times during the talk). For the transition and for maintaining the peace. But I guess you just like making snarky comments. Did you even watch the video?

  • @richardcadbury What the hell is a pyramid salesman? Is Egypt trying to shore up more money for their country?

  • @chazthetic lol :)

  • Nice talk by the way, though I didn't understand 33% of what he was talking about.

  • Have you read his books?

  • No, nor do I care to at this time. I'm going to school to drug people (doctor), not to learn about war strategies; I'll leave that to the people @ West Point.

    Division of labor....it's what makes america great.

  • this guy reminds me of russell crowe in body of lies

  • You should watch the other TED lecture by Michael Shermer: "Why people believe in strange things".

  • tibet isnt worth WW3

  • China seems to think it is.

  • uhh... this begs the question: WHAT IS?

  • @AffigesEtwas but holland is .. ??? :-) i think..? kill all the dutch people and solve the worlds problems....

    its a small country but they are on top of the food chain... they are running this eardly show...

    there queen is the puppet master..she got them all on strings...

  • If we fight China, Russia will enter, the Arabs will capitalize on American military being stretched, it'll be world war 3. You want world war 3 to happen so that we can save your little Tibet?

  • he says:

    "the problem is you gotta have a big sexy opponent to fight against and if you don't have one, you gotta make one up..."

  • Yeah--also he brings up other ideas. I liked the talk.

  • The exercise of power on a global level: the technical vocabulary, the abstractions. The world being "managed". This is obscene. I guess this is the type of world we live in after a five-centuries-long, ever-expansive, power struggle.

  • funny, i just got to the fourth insight myself

  • You would be right if Western/Eastern democratic republics had no rule of law, representation, or division of powers - but they do. I will tell you what is obscene - the genocide in Africa because no one wants to be "an imperialist."

  • Gotta stop china from getting oil in...er stop the genocide...yeah, that's the ticket... stop the genocide we fund..er the the government of Sudan is causing...er yeah that's it.

    Just don't go following the money and arms trail from JEM and SLA.. That would be unpatriotic.

    The sole purpose of America should be to bomb brown people, burn oil, coal, ext. Half of our taxes should go to that and for the profits of a hand full of not so bright yet well connected oil men and arms dealers. /s

  • China is in Sudan right now! Are you implying that the blame doesn't go on the Sudanese government either? And please show me the money trail.

  • China is getting oil from Sudan and that is my point...

    If Sudan's government only had oil deals with us, and If we were not involved in the destabilization then the story would be that "the government of Sudan is fighting a war on terror against Al Qaeda".

    watch?v=vnQbPEU6WPY

  • I doubt it, you basically just described the state of affairs in Iraq just before we invaded them.

  • @Gyrode

    You're naive if you think that they do.

  • @HavePenisWillButtsex But they do. Certainly, I am not naive to think republics are perfect, but compared to what? I understand being naive, but I have a sense of proportion....and I know what's better.

  • Yall watch the news way to much seriously. So both sides of yalls arguments are based on biases.

  • I can't believe I"m seeing this. This guy is seriously trying to justify the notion of "Team America World Police." This is the insane hubris of the neocon movement in the flesh. We have every right to destroy people who attack us, but this he recommends we bankrupt ourselves to attack anyone who our "wise leaders" believe is a threat. Vietnam? Iraq? Who wants to put the power of arbitrary war waging in the hands of our leaders? Bush and Obama should emphatically cause you to declare NO!

  • So just ignore Darfur? Wow, you've got problems.

  • Darfur is not a threat to the lives of American citizens. Therefore, you have no right to sacrifice the lives, or even the prosperity, of American citizens to Darfur.

  • So just turn our backs to genocide? I guess we shouldn't have stopped the Nazi's either, right?

  • We joined WWII to for no other reason than the defense of our lives--after we were attacked by globe-trotting dictatorships. Equating our actions in WWII to nation-building in Darfur is preposterous.

    You have no right to send American soldiers to die for anything but the defense of their own lives and their country. Do not allow the softness of your heart to extend into your head.

  • So genocide is fine with you so long as it doesn't happen to Americans?

  • I'm not about to tell my neighbor he has to die to stop what I deem to be an atrocity. You are saying that you have a right to sacrifice people to your cause. This slave-state mentality is what allows the atrocities in Darfur to occur. Don't think you are going to end repression of the individual abroad by advancing it here at home.

    Tell me: how easy is it for you to flippantly declare that lives should be sacrificed for your cause, as long as the life is not your own?

  • It's a 100% volunteer army dip shit. But hey if you want to see non-Americans as sub humans who don't deserve defense, fine. But how does cowering inside our own borders while entire continents fall into anarchy stop the instability that leads to terrorism?

  • So, because they volunteered to defend this country, that gives you the right to dispense with their lives for whatever cause you deem worthy? You are cruel.

    We have every right to smash the states which are a proven threat to us. Darfur has nothing to do with that.

    Conversation's over man. There's no reasoning with people who believe they can flip their countrymen into the grave to correct whatever injustices they perceive in this world.

  • I guess it's cruel to ask a volunteer fireman to go into a burning building where only illegal immigrants live too, right?

  • So perhaps we should stop funding the genocide and call off the jackals.

  • @Einstiensblackid

    You have problems shit head. You want to go help Darfur? Then do it yourself. I don't give one turd what they do to each other, and neither do they.

  • I see a lot of negative comments for this guy and I have to say most of them are wrong. What this guy is proposing is brilliant. I wish Obama would pick him as the Secretary of Fixing this BS. Not a single person in earth can logically argue the might of the US armed forces. They are truly fantastic. Now build a group that can rebuild nations. This country could lead into a new way of maintaining peace. Is really simple if you bully people the marines kick your ass then we help the people

  • His example of the last Air Force pilot to shoot down an enemy plane is wrong--look at the multiple shootdowns enforcing "Deny Flight" over Kosovo in 1999

  • He might have made me listen to His whole speech if He wasn't such an arrogant prick!

  • Barnett talks about two missions with different goals. Unfortunately, there is a third mission operating: arms industry dumping weapons all over the world. Great idea by McNamara: instead of making 1000 units of a weapon for US military, make 10,000 and sell the surplus overseas; unfortunately, increases conflict exponentially. Eisenhower was a smart guy

  • It's all about GOD! Guns Oil Drugs What are the biggest money making industries? #1 arms industry #2 drugs #3 oil. Why think Iran-Contra was an aberration? More a window to the soul. Did you hear that a plane used in CIA rendition flights crashed(N987SA)? It had 4 tons of cocaine on board. Darfur = Oil The Sudan Peoples' Liberation Army, headed until his death in July 2005 by John Garang, trained at the US Special Forces school at Fort Benning, Georgia.
  • This dumping of the arms is actually very telling--Barnett talks about how to make and enforce peace--as it stands, the US government is about making and spreading war (drugs, terror) on behalf of the arms dealers and manufacturers.

    Until the WAR profiteers lose control of congress, the US and the world is doomed to more conflict.

    Legalize drugs, prohibit weapons of war.

  • "It's a way we had over here with living with ourselves. We cut 'em in half with a machine gun and give 'em a Band-Aid. It was a lie. And the more I saw them, the more I hated lies." - Apocalypse Now

    'Nuff said.

  • fuck that when i die i am going to kick the ass of the questioning AngeleGABRIEL MOTHER FUCHRS :)

  • Smells like Pax Americana all over again.

  • He's still preaching military rule based on occupations in foreign lands.

    Police the world.

    We can't let them develop as a society on their own, we have to go in there, kick their asses, and force them into compliance....force them to "see American love".

    Same old shit...different a-hole..

  • So Darfur is just part of the process towards a peaceful country and we should all turn our backs to it?

  • Typical.

    "We're fighting for the wrong reasons"

    "Yeah? You want us to lose"?

    This kind of rhetoric may work in the US, although you'd think after Bush people are fed up with that BS.

  • Who said that?

  • @Einstiensblackid

    Einstein, if you want to go help stop them from killing each other, DO IT YOURSELF YOU PIECE OF SHIT. DON'T YOU SPEND OUR MONEY TO POLICE THE WORLD.

  • Very nice consultancy work, but what about stop spending those *huge* amounts of human resources and money in defense, and start investing in food and proper education for those who most need it ?

    Of course those actions may fire Mr. Barnett and many others from Pentago, but they are capable enough to get a better job. Maybe on some of those NGO's he mentioned on his proposal. Security is just an illusion. War and violence is not the path to peace.

  • Some extensive Googling hasn't revealed any indications that China was considered for a contract for missile fuel propellant of any type. If anyone can come up with more specifics I might be able to find something, but I think if there had even been a real rumor of this it would be all over the blogs and such.

  • Someone PLEASE, was COMMUNIST China awarded ANOTHER American defense contract?

  • Well, the good news is that China isn't really Communist anymore. The bad news is that we've given them more than a defense contract.

  • T/y 4 update-"the good news is that China isn't really Communist anymore. The bad news is that we've given them more than a defense contract."

    ~AledoCasizzle~

  • WELL, did China get this contract?

    DID THEY, huh?

  • ...and when they talk about national security...we have 15 months left of propellant for the hellfire missile and the Dept. of Defense is talking about giving that

    contract to China..."

    So tell me, this was stated in 2007. Did China get the contract?

    John Rratzenber

  • -Pentagon admits $2.3 Trillion missing and Rumsfeld calls it a matter of "life and death."-

    Rumsfeld call the Pentagon the enemy. That was 2001. Is the Pentagon still wasting money

    watch?v=xU4GdHLUHwU

  • Thomas P.M. Barnett "I met the last airforce general who had actually shot down an enemy plane in combat - he's now a one star general. That's how distant we are from meeting an airforce willing to fly against ours."

    The perception doesn't match the reality.

    The perception is - America's military is weak and broken.

    Dr. Barnett was hired by the Pentagon for consultation. He lays out some decent plans in this video.

    Question is, does the Pentagon ever adopt and implement his suggestions?

  • "The Pentagon's Debate Over What Iraq Means"

    The Command Post, 22 January 2005

    We've been linking to the work of Tom Barnett for some time, including his two Esquire articles, "The Pentagon's New Map" and "Mr. President, Here's How To Make Sense Of Our Iraq Strategy," and just yesterday, the CSPAN stream of his famous Defense Dept. brief on a grand military strategy for the United States..."

    thomaspmbarnett . com / articles / op-eds . htm

  • This video is enlightening.

  • yeah very!

  • I love his humor combined with the info about the consulting he did for the Pentagon.

    It's a good video.

  • Does this guy think that an occupied people care whether their occupiers are wiser, calmer 40 year-olds instead of brash 20 year-olds? The insurgents will still resist occupation.

  • The insurgents will, but will the rest of the people resist? That's his "goal", to win the hearts and minds of the common person, because with that happening, insurgents would most likely find it very difficult to continue on with their activities...

  • You are creating a false separation between the insurgents and the people of Iraq - many of the insurgents were normal Iraqis who became radicalised by the war and perhaps by the brutalisation of their people and their country.

    The more violence is inflicted upon the Iraqis - the harder and more pitiless their insurgents will become.

  • The insurgents are Iraqis too. Most rise from the general population of Iraq. As long as there is an occupation whcih the Iraqi people reject there will be a resistance/insurgency.

  • @tmddog

    Hearts and minds is bullshit. You don't actually need the support of even 1% of the people to wage a very successful insurgency.

  • TEAM AMERICA

    WORD POLICE

    Just die already

  • a very smart man.

  • It's very funny that America has no democracy and is governed by a military and corporate dictatorship! haha real funny that this man's sole purpose in life is creating business models that will kill and impoverish millions of people. haha TED you are reeling in some great people! Hey maybe you can convince your viewers that there should be another holocaust. Just bring in some douchebag to tell jokes and present a powerpoint! The people will love it! Oh you've already done that? Well shucks....

  • Did you actually watch the video, or did you just hear the word "war", and start having a hissy fit?

    His tag line, was don't wage the war if you can't promise peace. He wants to make sure things like the occupation of Iraq don't happen again, and if we need to intervene to STOP something like the African genocide, that we do it the right way so that people don't end up suffering when we leave.

  • I've known who this piece of shit is and what he stands for for years. America is closing in on Africa and braindead people like you will cheerlead as the bombs fall because they'll attach the words "freedom", and "democracy", to their warheads. America creates the problem and then rushes in like the superhero to further enslave the people, strip them of their land, and force them to work in their factories to turn a profit. U.S. foreign policy is a blackhole of, greed, hate and genocide.

  • I can't believe you actually buy all of that bullshit. America is not responsible for the world's ills; America did not create radical Islam nor did we incite genocide and ethnic cleansing in Africa and Eastern Europe. We don't "enslave anyone". You make it sound as if we ship people back to the states and chain them to a sewing machine.

    Where exactly are you from that's so free and pure from these evil American ideals?

  • Sorry I do not have a de-brainwashing mixture that will work for you in less than 500 characters of youtube text, but I will suggest you read two authors (1) John Perkins and (2) Noam Chomsky. You can also take a look in google under the keywords:

    IMF, WTO, Worldbank, Neo-liberalism, NAFTA.

    America is not a beacon of hope, it is a beacon of death.

  • Not only America, but I'd say we are #1 in earths ills.

    We did create radical Islam to fight the U.S.S.R. and still use them... nice try Chris.

    We have a large roll in Darfor for example. It's USA vs. China threw proxy and over the oil. We want regime change in Sudan so we back the opposition.

    China offerers interest free loans, not IMF world bank slavery. China's now gets 65-80% of Sudan's oil and threw regime change we can change that, thus genocide.

    War for Chevron and Exxon.

  • This concept of a civilian security and empire management force will cause bloating of the U.S. deficit. It's like he wants a U.S. force to supplant the U.N. and administer justice and security in occupied lands. He sees no need for allies but he is forgetting about international politics. He is incorrect that the U.S. is not empire-building; the Roman Empire did not force people to change religion

    or live like Romans but it encouraged it as a way to become powerful.

  • He's talking about empire building and teaching the military to act like a police force. The U.S. is on the wrong track. The invasion of Iraq was illegal under U.S. and international law.

  • International law? Who's going to stop them?

  • "International law? Who's going to stop them?"

    The barbarians...and imperial overstretch.

  • I saw another two hour speech this guy did on CSPAN. He was much more pro-war there. Like the other person said, I thought I was going to be sickened. But I'm pleasantly surprised by what he had to say. He's right, it does take both sides. Read Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, and what it has to say about good and bad. Its so obvious, you don't even really think about it. Though you should.