Tom Friedman puts his fingers in his ears and screams "aaaaaah"

[Jacobin]

I could not believe this column, even from a leaping warmongering gnome like Friedman:

I have a confession to make: I am the foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times and I didn't listen to one second of the 9/11 hearings and I didn't read one story in the paper about them. Not one second. Not one story.

Lord knows, it's not out of indifference to 9/11. It's because I made up my mind about that event a long time ago: It was not a failure of intelligence, it was a failure of imagination. We could have had perfect intelligence on all the key pieces of 9/11, but the fact is we lacked — for the very best of reasons — people with evil enough imaginations to put those pieces together and realize that 19 young men were going to hijack four airplanes for suicide attacks against our national symbols and kill as many innocent civilians as they could, for no stated reason at all.

snip

I want to wake up and read that Dick Cheney has apologized to the U.N. and all our allies for being wrong about W.M.D. in Iraq, but then appealed to our allies to join with the U.S. in an even more important project — helping Iraqis build some kind of democratic framework. I want to wake up and read that Tom DeLay called for a tax hike on the rich in order to save Social Security and Medicare for the next generation and to finance all our underfunded education programs.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/opinion/28FRIE.html?8hpib


So this super-hawk, who pushed like mad for the invasion of Iraq now wants Cheney to clean up the "reasons" for the invasion, to make it all nice-poo?

And this dimwitted "reporter/journalist" hack hasn't watched a nano-second of Clarke's testimony??????? Jeezus, how do these dimwitted fuckwads get away with collecting a paycheck for this drivel?

[Zeke]

1. Monkey Madness...

He doesn't hear, see, or speak evil.

He's an idiot.

Let it go at that---straight forwatrd and simple.

I predict his wife will divorce him.

[DenverDem]

2. how do these dimwitted fuckwads get away with collecting a paycheck?

Propaganda is exactly the drivel these fuckwads get paid for. They are not dimwitted, they know exactly what they are doing and that makes them criminals and enemies of Democracy.

[trumad]

4. Plus

He really thinks if Kerry picks McCain as VP then all partisanship will go out the window... Idiot! The Repukes would turn on McCain in a second!

[thebigidea]

3. ohhh Mista Pragmatic! That Friedman, what a card.

http://www.terminalproduct.com/mrpragmatic.mp3

[nostamj]

5. while I did not attend the opera...

I know that the soprano was flat and the first oboist was playing with a cracked reed.

trust me.

[BigBigBear]

6. Friedman's descent

into dribbling, incoherent blather has been a remarkable thing to see over the last 14 months. He has split innumerable hairs, made some wildly inaccurate predictions, relied on this inane "right war for the wrong reason" garbage - and people still take him seriously.

He started off sounding like a thoughtful reporter with on-the-ground experience. He now sounds like another hack think-tank theorician, who keeps revising his story when events overtake his Grand Vision.

His nonsense (and Judith Miller's as well) has consistently been some of the most audacious drivel ever to enable a phoney war.

[kaitykaity]

7. My question to Mr. Friedman:

"If the Bush administration was so incompetent in counterterrorism
that it did not prevent 9/11, and there are serious questions now as
to whether or not it could have been done, then what in the world
makes you think every other part of their foreign policy isn't just
as suspect?"

Friedman is such a troll. A goob. :eyes:

[Rex]

8. Tom Friedman - ignorant Nazi sympathizer

Tom would deny the Holocaust could have been stopped because he never looked at a picture or read a letter from war correspondence about concentration camps or, even after WWII, listened/watched the Nuremberg trials.

Tom Friedman would have you believe that no one could have ever imagined that Hitler would become an evil monster and THEREFORE the slaughter of the Jews/gays/minorities was just something that was bound to happen.

Tom Friedman - ignorant of history & panderer of evil.

[skypilot]

9. Jesus Christ!!!!! Would they STOP saying this.

The intelligence community was already on alert that there were people with "evil enough imaginations" to attempt such a thing. My God, after the first WTC attack in 1993 one of the terrorist (Ramsi Yousef?) said that their intent was to topple one tower into the other and send them both toppling over sideways. Imagine THAT.

At this point people like Friedman are only pretending to have their heads in the sand.

[Stephanie]

11. That's right. Friedman knows exactly what he's lying about - not ignorant

I bet he TIVO'd the testimony and watched the whole thing, too.

Here's a guy who took the wrong side of a question and now is too stubborn to say he was wrong. Instead he spins and spins and now pretends to stick his head in the sand.

Well, you were WRONG Tom. Face up to it.

Why are these right-wingers such pansy asses? Be a MAN Tom, admit you were wrong!

It's INFURIATING that the NY Times PRINTS this crap. Between Friedman & Brooks they should call it Op-LIES.

[lichenorleaveit]

10. for no stated reason at all

Was there ever a "stated reason"?

Counld any "stated reason" even be valid?

[Jacobin]

12. Sure they have stated reasons:

1. Stop unconditionally supporting Israel in the genocide of Palestinians.

2. U. S. Troops out of Saudi Arabia (Smirk gave him that one).

3. End imperialism in Muslim states and support of dictatorial oil regimes.

There might be a couple of other ones.

They declared war on us and they have attacked us. Tom "just can't figure it out", but its not surprising if he doesn't read what is going on in the world, as he admitted in this 'column'.