I read the following at the Tom Barnett's Blog:

The Middle East is certainly the future of "weeds" in globalization's spread, but South and East Asia is obviously where the "lawn" is being grown most heavily right now.

True to form with this administration, America lives to kill weeds, leaving China to grow the lawn elsewhere. This strangely myopic approach (No wait! We are tracking Chinese sub developments, so we're on top of that all right!) gives China's "charm offensive" far more sway that it should have, given all of China's clear associations with globalization's negative externalities.

The clear irony for the neocons is, of course, that the more they try to maintain the one-superpower world, the more they unintentionally push the planet toward balancing us asymmetrically.

I like the way Tom Barnett thinks...( Although my pacifist nature has to look away when he simplifies wars and death). His was a response to this article: The Nation Multimedia - Editorial: Asean-US ties: be seen, be heard