This Thomas Friedman on Iraq clip is still one of the WOAT takes I’ve ever heard on anything

[Dusty Bake Activate]

This shyt makes your brain vomit.

 

[88m3]

This shyt makes your brain vomit.

specific issues?

 

[Geek Nasty]

But don’t question which country their loyalties lie with

fukking hated this always wrong dirtbag for 15 years

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Thomas Friedman is proof that not all terrible political takes are based on partisanship. Sometimes you can be just an independently awful commentator all by yourself.

Man, invading Iraq really did a number on that terrorism "bubble"

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I had to go to his wikipedia to remember all the awful takes he's had through the years.

Friedman believes that individual countries must sacrifice some degree of economic sovereignty to global institutions (such as capital markets and multinational corporations), a situation he has termed the "golden straitjacket".[33]

During the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Friedman wrote the following in The New York Times on April 23, 1999: "Like it or not, we are at war with the Serbian nation (the Serbs certainly think so), and the stakes have to be very clear: Every week you ravage Kosovo is another decade we will set your country back by pulverizing you. You want 1950? We can do 1950. You want 1389? We can do 1389 too." Friedman urged the US to destroy "in Belgrade: every power grid, water pipe, bridge [and] road", annex Albania and Macedonia as "U.S. protectorates", "occupy the Balkans for years," and "[g]ive war a chance."

In his September 29, 2005, column in The New York Times, Friedman entertained the idea of supporting the Kurds and Shias in a civil war against the Sunnis: "If they the Sunnis won't come around, we should arm the Shiites and Kurds and leave the Sunnis of Iraq to reap the wind."[47]

Critics of Friedman's position on the Iraq War have noted his recurrent assertion that "the next six months" will prove critical in determining the outcome of the conflict. A May 2006 study by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting cited 14 examples of Friedman's declaring the next "few months" or "six months" as a decisive or critical period, dating from in November 2003, describing it as "a long series of similar do-or-die dates that never seem to get any closer".[48]

The blogger Atrios coined the neologism "Friedman Unit" to refer to this unit of time in relation to Iraq, noting its use as a supposedly critical window of opportunity.[49][50]

Friedman has been criticized by organizations such as Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting for defending Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon as a form of "educating" Israel's opponents; according to FAIR, Friedman was explicitly endorsing terrorism by Israel against Lebanese and Palestinians.[57] Journalist Glenn Greenwald and professor Noam Chomsky also accused Friedman of endorsing and encouraging terrorism by Israeli forces.[58][59]

In September 2009, Friedman wrote an article praising China's one-party autocracy, saying that it was "led by a reasonably enlightened group of people"[65]

In April 2018, Barrett Brown criticized Friedman for "his serial habit of giving the benefit of the doubt to whoever happens to hold power",[84] such as Friedman's column supporting Vladimir Putin as a modernizing reformer, in which he urged Americans to "keep rootin' for Putin".[85][84]

Friedman supported Hillary Clinton for President of the United States in the 2016 election,[96] and supports Michael Bloomberg in the 2020 primaries.[97][98]

If you ever wanted to know what Trump would have looked like as an establishment neoliberal newspaper editor....

 

[Conan]

No idea why idiots like him and Brooks are still hired by the NYT

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

specific issues?

You agree with him?

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Thomas Friedman is proof that not all terrible political takes are based on partisanship. Sometimes you can be just an independently awful commentator all by yourself.

Man, invading Iraq really did a number on that terrorism "bubble"

The whole economic bubble-moral bubble analogy is awfully illogical in the first place. There was a moral market bubble in the 90’s because...terrorist attacks were overpriced assets with unsustainable futures or something? How does this clown have a job writing for the most important US newspaper?

 

[Pressure]

I had to go to his wikipedia to remember all the awful takes he's had through the years.


















If you ever wanted to know what Trump would have looked like as an establishment neoliberal newspaper editor....

Trump is an establishment neoliberal president. Prior to that we had to read his opinion pieces.