Tom Friedman's New Career Choice:Advice Columnist (Booman Tribune)

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Tom Friedman's New Career Choice

by Steven D
Wed May 2nd, 2007 at 09:13:14 AM EST
Today, Tom Friedman, NY Times columnist and proponent of Flat Earth theory, auditions for a new position: Advice Columnist (link is to a page behind the Times firewall):

"On Thursday there will be a regional conference in Egypt to discuss stabilizing Iraq, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will represent the U.S. President Bush should go instead and give this speech:

"I want to take this opportunity to speak to the Arab and Muslim nations gathered here today and to the world at large. I begin with a simple message: I’m sorry. I’m sorry that I rushed into the invasion of Iraq. I honestly believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. I was wrong, and I now realize that in unilaterally launching the war the way I did, you all feel that I breached a bond of trust between America and the world. Not only did that alienate you from us, it made us less effective in Iraq. We had too few allies and too little legitimacy. I apologize — sincerely.

"I’m most sorry, though, because my bungling of the war has prompted all of us to take our eye off the ball. I messed up the treatment so badly that people have forgotten the patient really does have a disease. Now that I’ve apologized, I hope you will stop fixating on me and look closely at what is happening in your backyard: the forces and pathologies that brought us 9/11 are still there and multiplying."

That's only an excerpt by the way. Friedman's entire column, other than that first paragraph above, consists of his imaginary Bush apology about Iraq. Though, perhaps its better to say it's really Friedman's own disguised apologia for having supported Bush's misadventure in Iraq. Because, and let's be fair here, even someone as clueless as Mr. Friedman knows that Bush doesn't take advice. He's a decider, remember.

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http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2007/5/2/91314/32327

[Raven]

1. Notice how many mea culpas there have been lately?

In my mind's eye I see a rat diving off a sinking ship yelling "Sorry".

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2. Yep. And there's no place to hide. The media fish bowl has become equal...

...opportunity.

"We're all neocons now", NOT.

Not even some neocons are neocons now.