Friedmanism

I have to give credit to Tom Friedman, the New York Times columnist.

He manages to take very complicated matters and stuff them nice and neatly into one tiny, simple packaged metaphor. His series of columns on the Middle East could very easily be the text of a “for Dummies” book.

Of course, the credit he gets is limited. His oversimplifications are enabled by ideological blindspots, such as the few so apparent in today’s column, ‘Green Shoots in Palestine’:

Friedman Watch: Thomas Friedman Gone Wild

In today’s New York Times, Thomas Friedman outdid himself in a piece titled, simply, “Pakistan.” He made the interesting observation that there was not a mass protest in Pakistan against the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, akin to the ones seen in the wake of the publication of the Danish cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet, Mohammed, [...]

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