The Next Six Blog Posts Will Be Crucial!
T. has fun with Tom Friedman in comments downblog: “BTW, we need to wait and see whether Friedman’s change of heart actually sticks. The next six months will - ” but you know the rest.
And commenter just sayin makes the key point:
So what’s he plan to do to prevent the coming war with Iran?
Indeed, as we bloggers say in our blog talk. If Friedman wants to undo the damage he seems to realize he helped cause, stopping the next war now is the way to go about it.
Comment by max —
October 1, 2007 @ 3:31 am
I’d love to see us salvage something decent in Iraq that might help tilt the Middle East onto a more progressive pathway. That was and is necessary to improve our security. But sometimes the necessary is impossible — and we just can’t keep chasing that rainbow this way.
Shorter Friedman: “Everything is all wrong and fucked-up and America is all screwy and I screwed up and I’m not going to tell you how that happened or what you should do about it or even imply what you should do about it. Except that a giant corporation needs more immigration. THAT’S IMPORTANT.”
max
[’Funny how when the markets go screwy, THEN the well-off start with the whinging.’]
Comment by 123@gmail.com —
October 1, 2007 @ 7:24 am
It must be nice being Tom Friedman. The 9/11 Tom Friedman enables the 9/12 Tom Friedman, because if there had not been a 9/11 Friedman (and others like him) there could not have been the 9/12 version.
So huzzah. Let’s bomb Iran.
Comment by peep —
October 1, 2007 @ 3:01 pm
To paraphrase Mr. Zimmerman, “If Friedman’s on our side/He’ll stop the next war”