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Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:00 AM

The Dangers of Revisionism: Tom Friedman tries to hide his "very big stick"

Re-writing the history of the Iraq War threatens to suppress the vital lessons that should be learned from it.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Sunday, November 30, 2008 08:58 PM

    i kinda respected friedman

    he was pretty much the first of the non-rabid armchair generals to come out and admit that iraq's big crime was being an arab nation which appeared easy to knock over, as in that 2003 quote of his. i didn't agree, but at least he was speaking the truth that everyone knew at some level. that's a start on a debate; better than the meme that we were over there to save the heartland from 9/11, that we wasted half a decade arguing with.

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