"The rhetoric of Washington is absolutely pernicious ...- rhetoric that views the outside world as evil. Our foreign policy is trying to convert people to nirvana...that is, our way...or beating them up, humiliating and punishing them."

"We in the media have culpability. Bad news sells. We should really think about it. We have an obligation to place things in context. The truth is we are safer than at any other time in history. Where's the news in that?"

"We do live in a troubled world, but this is not Armageddon. Just because a two-bit dictator in Iran has some strange musings about religion doesn't mean he's going to end the world as we know it. Nor can he."

A candid conversation with one of the smartest foreign-policy minds in the U.S. about the cost of Iraq, the upcoming election and the future of America		Fareed Zakaria

PLAYBOY: What would be a more rational strategy on terrorism?

ZAKARIA: We should certainly be tracing these groups, tracking their funds, doing everything we can to obstruct and intercept them. We should also make a much more active effort to engage this struggle at cultural, political and economic levels to make these societies understand that we share their aspirations for modernity. We want to partner with them. We see our future as being linked with theirs. We shouldn't convey that we think Islam is the enemy. Look, if 1.3 billion Muslims were really trying to revolt against the West, you would hear about it a lot more often than the occasional cafe bomb in Istanbul.

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