Tom F. will make a grand entrance. I remember too.... The audience here needs to prepare to cheer or say : boo? GOPS will wear those Viking Horns that Haggar the Horrible wears when a plunder job is happening. The horns that curl and point crescent shaped, in the beautiful month of May?

Tom F. will act fake-kind. That trait is so very spooky.

Tom F. may poke us dense readers on a what/where?

Tom F. needs Nature's forces to goad him into oblivion.

Tom F. is a waste. What a fraud. Tom Foolery? For sure.

Did he actually see Team America? If so, I'm guessing the satire went over his head.

He surely must have absolutely no sense of irony whatsoever, to speak the way he does. I can't believe he achieved such a state without medical intervention.

Did he have some lobe of his brain removed?

Apparently Friedman never learned the song about swallowing the spider to catch the fly, either. Especially how it ends.

GC... placing any bets on how long it will take our friend to show up, and under what name this time?

Only to fast-forward to the puppet sex scene, I guess.

Friedman's "three rivers of rage" strike me as fundamentally misleading. Is it not obvious that they are all the same river? Does he think all these angry Arabs don't know enough to link them all in an instant? Or that Arab/Middle East newspapers don't make the connections for them?

And did none of his Arab cabdrivers (or whoever they were) mention Israel itself and US support for it as a source of rage? They must have been on their best behavior when he interviewed them. Nothing about THAT in the Cairo newspapers, oh no.

Friedman obviously has a hard-on for a war w/ Iran, as he shifts his (blood)lustful gaze to there from Iraq. It's a feeling with which you are undoubtedly familiar.

So take your "literary criticism" and shove it.

Friedman (and administration officials) talk belligerently.

Oil prices rise on insecurity over fears of potential conflict in oil-producing states like Iran and Venezuala.

Countries Friedman has identified as enemies of America pocket ridiculous profits, sucking capital out of the US.

So, is Friedman speculating in oil futures or is he just dumb as a bag of hammers?

Nature provided us with enough wisdom to give people feet to walk with. And she provided enough wisdom to guide people from going astray. A fool shuts down. It is madness to assume any one person's 'insight' will change the course of the way.... I mean.... the vast masses will walk the road they decide to adventure. Where does the individual pathway end up? It is an individual adventure.

No personal insight from Glenn, Tom, or anybody will necessarily grab, and yank the earlobe of the world's population's

Ear. Listen. Listen. Listen.

Get into the personal skin.

Tom F. Oh, what a soft comfy pillow?

A well-schooled head can be ignorant.

To have no honest concern for others?

Creators of misery. Consider immortality.

In the Middle East [..] your enemies always seem to “find a way of joining together and suddenly making things very difficult for you.”

Call it, the, er, blow-back effect of Suck-On-This.

Don't forget the 'Persian' contractors at Thermopylae...I think that too counts as invasion.

(PS...I'm joking, stupid too, but not that stupid.)

"phallic eye", it is a now well known trope (the "phallic gaze") in various studies of power relations arising out of Freud, Lacan, and others. It seems very apt in reference to folks like Friedman. It also gives one an amusing, though slightly fantastical, image to contemplate.

As we wait and anticipate, the GOPS called for an emergency meeting. The code pink sirens are blaring now. The GOP experts are screeching pink chalk on the blackboards as we speak. The powdered lemon aid is being snorted.

The cans of 'Spam' and 'Twinkies' are being gobbled up. The GOP pep rally crew will entertain the readers today. Be pleasant? mock.

Glenn should give the red scare warnings?

Glenn uses the black chalk? GOPS no see.

Blackboards should be white? okay. shush.

Why does Tom Friedman think he can tell us "what 9/11 was all about" by roaming around the "Arab-Muslim world" asking people about it? Did these "people" attack us?

Osama bin Laden personally directed the nineteen hijackers. He had issued a fatwa to kill Americans and their allies in order to "liberate" the al-Aqsa Mosque (in Jerusalem) and the holy mosque (in Mecca) "from their grip" (his words). He has specifically mentioned the presence of U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia (the holiest land in Islam) as his motive for commanding the attacks. He said he chose to destroy the towers after watching Israel destroy towers in Lebanon in 1982.

That's "what 9/11 is all about", Tom. U.S. boots on the ground in holy Islam.

"It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity. After that, the next step is to become a small power itself." - G. K. Chesterton, "Heretics" (1906)

with the two guys who wrote the book "The Experts Speak" Freidman is "definetely" an expert. He ought to team up with Bill Kristol as prognosticator of future events.

The only good thing about having a Tony Soprano in this administration is that Soprano would just as soon take out his own inner circle as any perceived ‘outside enemy’. I do agree that thinning out this herd would be a good thing. That part of the analogy is always lost on morons like Friedman.

To have the level of extreme immaturity of talking-heads like Tom Friedman, Joe Lieberman, and Jonah Goldberg – people who more than likely giggle like school girls at Tony Soprano’s violence, with milk coming out their nose – is a perfect example of how utterly clueless they are to the fact that associating with a Tony Soprano would most likely bring about their own demise faster than any outside force. Which, considering the rapid decline of the United States over the past 7 years of their neo-con style "leadership", it's not surprising these clowns see strength in those who would do themselves the most harm.