Thomas Friedman, Idiot
Posted By Russ Emerson on March 20, 2003 at 6:20 pm
UPDATE: see this post for a partial retraction. But go ahead and read this one. It is substantially valid.
Thomas Friedman drools all over the pages of the International Herald Tribune today. His article is too long to duplicate here, but let me summarize his main points:
- Bush is a cowboy without a posse
- Iraq cannot be liberated and turned into a democracy without the UN
- Bush’s limited diplomatic efforts were a failure
- so we go to war alone
- The Bush administration needs an “attitude lobotomy” [his words] and should immediately prostrate itself before the world
- [Spurious comparison with Israel’s Six Day War]
- America must repeat the success of the Marshall Plan
Point by point,