Thomas Friedman has lost it completely!

[joeybee12]

I had stopped reading him because of his insane comment that it didn't matter whether we ever found WMD's, but today's headline caught my eye: "War With France."

I figured it was a play on words, but NO, he thinks we're really at war with France and that they're the enemy! He's insane! It's like the rantings of the most simple-minded neocon in this fraudluent administration!

I'd post a link, but not sure if I want to be an enabler. Anyone else read it?

[Brucey]

1. Tom's a wacko, nut case... how did he get so influential?

[JHB]

4. The same way any nutcase becomes influential...

...he says what The Right People want to hear (or what they fear) just as they're beginning to think (or fear) it themselves.

[Evil_Dewers]

6. "Tom's a wacko, nut case... how did he get so influential?"

Three Pulitzers. He's burned out--now it is time for him to fade away.

[Forkboy]

2. saying he "lost it"

assumes he had some sanity to start with.

I got to read a lot of him down in I/P where one poster agrees with him regularly.

[HPLeft]

3. 'Tis a troubling Article

I almost wrote him a letter in response. But, it seemed pointless at this juncture. Tom is heavily invested in his "dream" of a new Iraq, and refuses to face reality - and assign blame where it really belongs. When America assumes the role of rogue superpower, all sorts of bad things begin to happen - like the French becoming as worried about the United States as they are about a thug like Hussein.

I think Tom had a previous life during the British Raj and still working through his issues around colonialism and "benevolent" imperialism...

[stickdog]

5. France is just his euphemism for "freedom." (NT)

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

7. Freidman just is a PNAC wacko

his 'column' is just total garbage today.

Garbage that only a PNAC world domination thug would
hold.

PROPAGAND PNAC.

[Flying_Pig]

8. Friedman is a PNAC propagandist, and nothing more....

His most recent article calls France, "the enemy". Wrong again Tom. It is HE who is the enemy. As a propagandist for the PNAC/LikudAIPAC gang, he has proven to be a supple sycohpant. The fact he is allowed to spew his garbage in what is considered America's top newspaper, not only speaks of the agenda of the Times' owners, but also to the power this bunch has in our media.

Tom Friedman is a traitor. He, and all like him, should face trial for enabling the criminal and fascist oligarchy running, and ruining, our country right now. As far as I am concerned, a firing squad would be too good for the likes of him.

:grr:

[chaumont58]

9. The old grey mare, she ain't what she used to be

Early in Friedman's article, he writes:

"If you add up how France behaved in the run-up to the Iraq war (making it impossible for the Security Council to put a real ultimatum to Saddam Hussein that might have avoided a war),"

If there were NO WMDs, NO connection to 9/11, NO nu-cu-lar program, ultimatum for what?

300 Americans, over 50 Brits, thousands of Iraqis are dead. And for what? I wont begin to believe Friedman thinks for one minute about the needless dead. Armchair strategist like Friedman doesn't concern himself with real lives.

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. Friedman never had it to begin with.

He's got this totally delusional, rose-coloured view of America and its actions in the international sphere...not "my country right or wrong", but "my country is always right". He's either a propagandist, or he actually BELIEVES that America is Just and Righteous, that we only want to bring Freedom and Democracy to the poor benighted oppressed peoples of the world, that our motives are altruistic and not selfish or calculated.

If the latter is true, I'll take about a pound of whatever it is he's been smoking, because it MUST be some good stuff.

[Postman]

11. His column's make good birdcage liners. That's about all they're good for.

They make no sense whatsoever. He's part of the problem not the solution. Can you spell p-r-o-p-a-g-a-n-d-i-s-t ?

[Postman]

12. Paul Krugman runs circles around this clown Friedman

eom

[IndianaGreen]

13. Friedman has a cult following among some DUers

I personally find Friedman to be as disgusting and vile as Ann Coulter, and it pains me that people waste bandwidth posting his filth on this board.

[John_Shadows_1]

14. This is just irrational blather...

.... it doesn't even take the crucial facts into account:

(1) France needs Iraqi oil - they want stability in the country, too - they just want to make sure that it's not American-Empire type stability.

(2) France has a large Muslim population, and they have to be sensitive to them - they've had bombings and terrorist actions there to deal with (this is never mentioned by screeching U.S. media, but when I talk to French people I meet, it's the first thing that they say).

(3) We're asking for French troops in a war that France opposed - don't you think that should be brought up at some point?

[joeybee12]

15. Right--we wnat them to shed French blood...

...just because we're the U.S. F**king of A.!

Friedman typifies the arrogance of people who believe other people and other countries don't matter.