Globalist Thomas P.M. Barnett’s Vision for the Middle East

Thomas Barnett, author of The Pentagon’s New Map, has an op-ed in the Deseret News that dovetails quite well with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s call for America to impose a naval blockade on Iran.

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Who is Thomas P.M. Barnett?

As a professor at the U.S. Naval War College, he sees himself as a Jack Ryan, and describes his job as follows: "...the military pays me to sit around and think about the future of the world.... I worry about everything" (The Pentagon's New Map, p. 12).

Professor Barnett is the author of The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century (2004) and Blueprint for Action (2005). Barnett's thesis is that the world is divided into two groups: the "Functioning Core," and the "Non-Integrating Gap." What is the difference between the two?

According to an article Barnett wrote for Esquire in March 2003,

Show me where globalization is thick with network connectivity, financial transactions, liberal media flows, and collective security, and I will show you regions featuring stable governments, rising standards of living, and more deaths by suicide than murder. These parts of the world I call the Functioning Core, or Core. But show me where globalization is thinning or just plain absent, and I will show you regions plagued by politically repressive regimes, widespread poverty and disease, routine mass murder, and — most important — the chronic conflicts that incubate the next generation of global terrorists. These parts of the world I call the Non-Integrating Gap, or Gap.

Members of the "Functioning Core" include the United States, European Union, Russia, China, and the Pacific Rim countries, and others that are adapting to "globalization." The "Non-Integrating Gap" is comprised of countries that must be forced militarily to accept globalization and become part of the "Core." More