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Morning Skim: The Wealth Gap, A.I.G. Death Wish, 'Zombie Banks' and More
Opinionator — ... : “The consequence of the policy change will be stealth legalization — which will create the worst of all worlds for countries like Mexico that are asked to fight supply.” Post Global : Fareed Zakaria argues we need to distinguish between Muslim groups around the world and consider cutting deals with the ones who are less bad, which he says was Bush’s path to success in Iraq: Over the past eight years, such distinctions have tended to be regarded as naive. The Bush administration spent its first term engaged in a largely abstract, theoretical conversation about radical ...

NSN Daily Update 3/2/09
democracyarsenal.org — ... Fareed Zakaria examines the Swat valley truce and urges distinguishing between extreme and violent Islam. ...

Freddie Mac Chief Resigns, End of Global War on Terror, the Catchphrase
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man — Paul Krugman E J Dionne Fareed Zakaria Politico has an interesting piece that President Obama is having more trouble from Washington "insiders" than appointees from outside of Washington: "We know the public wants fundamental reforms, and as candidate Obama always said, change doesn’t come from Washington, it comes to Washington. That is hard to pull off, of course, if you primarily work with people from Washington." ...

Giving the Inertia of Peace a Chance
Obsidian Wings — ... Fareed Zakaria uses the recent accommodation between the Pakistani government and militants in the Swat Valley in Pakistan as a launching point to discuss the proper posture for the United States to adopt vis-a-vis Islamist movements of various stripes.  The short version: it is vital that we differentiate between al-Qaeda type groups and other Islamist groups that do not subscribe to theories of global jihad (and that we learn to live with the latter).  ...