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Bill Clinton: World's Borders More 'Like Nets Than Walls'

Bill Clinton: World's Borders More 'Like Nets Than Walls'
A member of the Iraqi security forces keeps watch on the main highway near Ramadi, Anbar's provincial capital, west of Baghdad, which links the Iraqi capital to the borders with Syria and Jordan. (Azhar Shallal/AFP/Getty Images)

By    |   Friday, 19 September 2014 06:14 AM EDT

Power is more diffuse in a technologically advanced world, and that means inclusiveness is the only way to battle the world's problems, says former President Bill Clinton.

Though the world seems to be disintegrating, there is actually more good news than bad, Clinton said Thursday on "The Daily Show."

The explosion of information technology is helpful to fishermen in Indonesia, who now can use cellphones to determine the price of fish, Clinton said, but the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group can use that same technology to exploit social media and draw in recruits.

He said he believes President Barack Obama's plan to defeat ISIS has a chance to succeed because the Iraqi government finally includes Sunnis who represent the tribal leaders needed to help defeat ISIS.

"We can't win a land war in Iraq. We proved that," Clinton said. "But they can, and we can help them win it . . . If the democracy model is going to work it has to be inclusive."

Still, we have to accept that we can't win every battle, he said, and that we are probably about halfway through a 50-year struggle to define the terms of our interdependence.

"But we do know this: We are interdependent," he said. "That is, all the borders of the world look more like nets than walls . . . We've got to realize inclusion works, and unilateralism doesn't."

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Power is more diffuse in a technologically advanced world, and that means inclusiveness is the only way to battle the world's problems, says former President Bill Clinton.
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