Reply #6: you're not alone [View All]

[Cocoa]

A lot of people like Friedman and quote him, and I've never understood it.

I hope you can elaborate on why you don't think that column is stupid.

For me, on the face of it, reading about what is happening in Iraq, what Friedman is talking about is as trivial as it sounds, and Friedman's trying to make something ridiculously more significant out of it.

I think that's one of his main schtiks. He gives himself an air of profundity by finding meaning in unexpected places. His problem though is that there's no meaning there.