From Esquire Magazine (link):
What I’m here to tell you is this: You can achieve the fabled Middle East peace, but only if you lay down an effective fire wall between that region and the two potential flash points that can still ignite East Asia and send this whole global economy up in flames in a heartbeat. China is the baby you can’t throw out with the bathwater you’ve dubbed the “global war on terrorism.” You lose China, you might just kill globalization, and if that happens, it won’t be just a matter of what historians write eighty years from now; you’ll spend the rest of your days wondering why the world thinks you personally destroyed the planet’s best hope for ending war as we know it.
So here’s the package you need to pursue: Co-opt Iran, lock in China, and take down North Korea. Let’s get started, shall we?
See also Thomas PM Barnett’s weblog.