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Gen. Colin Powell and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington
Last August 25, I wanted to read my email and I saw an advertisement about the interview to Gen Colin Powell titled: Gen. Colin Powell on race, Republicans, reflects on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The surprise for me came from Yahoo that not allows seeing the video of the interview for people who live in Catalonia.

Obviously I searched on Google the way to see the interview and I found it .

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Now I understand why Yahoo has lost market share compared to Google. Congratulations to Yahoos CEO. I congratulate Gen Colin Powell for his clairvoyance to explain their views. Although anyone could have distant views of the Republican Party, he is one of the few people inside the Republican Party that is worth listening to. The other members of the Republican Party as Boehner, Cruz, McCain, McDonnell, Palin, Ryan, Rubio, Santorum to name a few, each one separately is writing a chapter in the Pitkin's book. It was no surprise that Powell said at term of the 2008 elections that he was distanced with the members of this party. He spoke about U.S. domestic and foreign policy concise and clear. It has been interesting to hear his claim that the president of Syria is a trickster pathological. Here is an example of the clash of Anglo-Saxon culture and the bazaar own of Semitic culture. Karl Marx never understood Mediterranean people. In the ancient Mediterranean area the patronage was the way of the relationship between social classes, so dominus (upper class) received the fidelity of the lower class with the condition to participate in the management. These kinds of ties dont get rid of in any place, but in the Mediterranean society still more visible. For those we are born in Catalonia, who appreciate the value of the word as the Anglo-Saxons, the bazaar culture is not strange, because we are under an autocratic system directed by senior officials, a centralist administration that continuously is lying like in a bazaar, and in Madrid to lie is the normal way of doing things. In consequence Catalonia suffers like a nonwestern economy. Chellaney says that nonwestern economies rely on cronyism capitalism, centralism, and autocratic politics. Buruma in one of his papers asks who will protect the minorities (Druze, Christians, Alawites, and others) in Syria that now protects the current political system, and in Bombing for morality questioned the Presidents reaction after his words of last year. The interview to Gay Talese, during his last visit to Catalonia, was a shock for me. He said that USA foreign policy is dictated by Netanyahu, and President Obama obeys what Netanyahu orders, hinting that President Obama is a puppet under his white establishment that is controlled by Netanyahu. Curiously Tolstoy reminds us how far the knowledge that orders our everyday world bases its apparent solidity in the fact avoid that this form of world be subjected to discussion; as a way to explain how runs "the world taken for granted." President Obama is caught in his speech warning Syria for the use of chemical weapons and logically now he cannot get out of this trap placed by someone of his establishment. The shift of the President Obama and his staff between critical parent when they talk about Syria and nurturing parent when they talk about Israel in the permanent Middle East crisis is interesting. The perception is that President Obama seems to have a strong adult state, it has as a consequence that he does not have empathy with other leaders who move constantly in a state of critical parent (Republican Party, Netanyahu, Merkel). Also it seems that he doesn't like sci-fi, which could means a lack of vision of future alternatives, possible and achievable, as Dani Rodrik explains; e.g. put the same rules in both sides of the Atlantic and bring order to the chaos in the euro zone. I remember talking with Atran that he had carried a survey in Palestine about land for money and he was surprised that Palestinians rejected this idea; perhaps Mr. Kerry ought to read this survey. Skidelsky is also sceptical according to his article John Kerrys Tricky Bid. All these ideas come together in my mind after I heard Gen. Powell talking about the US Middle East policy. President Obama is a young wolf and Gen. Powell is an old fox. Mr. President and his staff jointly with both political parties must listen his words and his point of view in this topic. Gen. Powell is a savvy person and he says that USA must have a more clever policy in this area.