Barnett/Hewitt, Part 8

The 8th and final installment of Hugh Hewitt's series of interviews with Thomas P.M. Barnett is now available on Townhall.com here. If you have not yet had a chance to listen, it's never too late to start. The series ends with analysis of the current state of world affairs, and cautious pragmatism for the future. Notably, Barnett describes China's growing influence in Africa.

The respect and admiration Hewitt has for Barnett is telling, given his tendency to defer to him, a quality you don't always see displayed by Hewitt, who is a seasoned, and very opinionated commentator.

Obama's shrewdness
On a side note, I've posted recently on Senator Obama's tough talk about Iran, and defense of Israel. It persistently struck me that a liberal Senator used such tough rhetoric, but then something I came across today put it in all in perspective. On Thomas Barnett's website, he writes of a meeting with Mark Lippert, Senator Obama's foreign policy adviser. It seems that Barnett has been imparting some wisdom on the Obama campaign, and it seems to be paying off.