Reply #10: He has some very good ideas. He has some very poor ones.

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He's absolutely correct on energy policy, and I think he's more right than wrong when it comes to the inevitability and often-beneficial nature of globalization. He's very right that poor third-world people welcome any economic expansion opportunities presented to them, and that advancing technology and industry have been greeted with widespread optimism in the undeveloped and developing world. Unfortunately, he ignores the fact that the backlashes are often just as fierce as the enthusiasm, if not more so. He can be blind at times; his near-fanatical belief in the pro-globalization tendencies of the downtrodden peoples of the Earth led to his insane (and widely-shared belief) that the Iraqis would welcome the American army.