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My, but it's tiresome to hear Friedmanesque claptrap in defense of, well, Friedman. Actually, it's only common sense to assume that prior wrongness, particularly unpunished wrongness, is a pretty good predictor of current wrongness. Whether or not Friedman has a point about clean energy now is rather beside the point, considering the parlous state in which "Tom's War" has left our government, rendering any real headway against Global Warming, and for that matter, any other environmental problem, unaffordable luxuries in our glorious "flat" world.
Never mind that whatever progress currently being trumpeted in Iraq is partly a product of government mouthpieces, and partly a product of the repetition thereof by those, like Friedman, who don't know any better. How can the costs, both financial and human, of the war ever be justified? They can't. Period. Ever.
Give it a rest, sock puppet. Game over.
