Zakaria's & Friedman's Aguments

While reading Zakaria’s Rise of the Rest I agree that “countries all over the world have been 
experiencing rates of economic growth...” (612, Zakaria) because my experience as a student, I have heard it by a couple of teachers. Zakaria exemplifies many successful icons in the world that the United States is not accountable for any longer. Although this may all be true I feel as though there is more thought to this. Are we really in competition, as a world? Just because someone else has something we don’t have yet does not make us less capable of being able to construct or build it, right? I felt as though he made really good points, but definitely left something out.

            While reading Friedman’s While I Was Sleeping I noticed his appeal to logos, which I feel makes his argument stronger than Zakaria’s. For one we all know that while yes we are in need of jobs in our country what do we do? We send out work that could be done here to be done in other countries to be cheaper. This allow’s other countries to grow and have jobs that we need. His argument contains facts that many of us know about and can automatically connect with.