In his article, “What Is Our Sputnik?”, Friedman (2010, January 17) makes some pretty bold, opinionated claims. While reading most of the article, I was thinking, “Wow! I can not believe he wrote that!” or “Great point!” or “Why isn’t anyone listening to this guy?”. I often wonder why America spends so much time and money trying to “fix” other countries while we need to be fixed ourselves, first.
I do feel strongly that the money we spend on other countries could be put to some great use in educating our youth to help build up our country to surpass China. That may at least help us become independent from them if we can at least buy back our country from them.
I was also not aware of anything that occurred in the Strait of Taiwan. It would be nice to see the news focusing on their peace and suggesting that other countries can work things out without us micromanaging everything.
Again, I feel that if we did take much of our efforts away from foreign issues and put that money into educating or own children, we could create our own Sputnik type phenomenon before we have the threat of another country beating us to the punch.
Reference
Friedman, T. L. (2010, January 17). What’s our sputnik? [Op-Ed]. The New York Times [Late Edition (East Coast)], p. WK.8.
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