Here's a headline (or 2) I'd like to see while Tom Friedman is on leave

[swag]

in response to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/opinion/27FRIE.html

Tom Friedman shitcanned for incomptence

Psuedoliberal columnist had neo-con agenda

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Three months without Friedman?

How will I survive? :eyes:

[clydefrand]

2. On one point I agree.

We need to stop demoralizing this country with this constant talk of war on terror. Bush didn't take the time to recognize it BEFORE 9/11. Now all he can spout out of his stupid lips is talk of war.

[struggle4progress]

3. Terror and Optimism! eom

[Cocoa]

4. he acts as if this is new for him

but aren't all of Friedman's columns this kind of insane fantasy?

The most ridiculous fantasy is that anyone would buy his lame attempt to reposition himself as someone that likes peace:

Bush Administration Calls an End to the "War on Terrorism." No, I haven't taken leave of my senses on the way out the door. I realize that we have enemies and they need to be confronted. But I do not want this to be all that America is about in the world anymore, and that is what has happened under this administration. I don't want the rest of my career to be about an America that exports fear, not hope, and ends up importing everyone else's fears as a result. I don't want it to be about explaining to young Chinese why my government can't give them student visas anymore. I don't want it to be about visiting U.S. Embassies around the world and finding them so isolated behind barbed wire, they might as well not be there at all. Defeating "them" has begun to define "us" in too many ways.

America is so much more than just "Anti-Al-Qaeda Inc." — but our whole identity in the world, and too many aspects of our way of life, are getting contorted around that mission. If we're really having a relevant presidential campaign, I'll come back and find the candidates debating, not who is the "toughest" guy — the jungle is full of them — but who can be the toughest guy while preserving the best of what we had and the best of who we are.

[The Zanti Regent]

5. Don't worry! The SCREW YORK TIMES will keep the light on for this liar!

He fits right in with their Nazi ideology.

[MikeG]

6. You're leaving out this gem from today's column

"I believe the main reason the Abu Ghraib prison scandal happened was because U.S. forces in Iraq were facing an uprising and had no intelligence."

WTF? This man is no help. He lives in a dream world.
And BTW, What useful person takes three months off?

What a jagoff.

[dand]

7. He is a forward element in the sharon Brigade,

making the world safe for Israel, even if it takes the last drop of American blood.

[The Zanti Regent]

8. You hit the nail on the head!

Friedman is like ALL of his fellow Neo-constipated 5th columnists.

Thier real loyalty is to Likud and NOT to America!