- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
From the deranged desire to force Iraqi civilians from Basra to Baghdad to "suck on" his imaginary "very big stick" -- "pound them across the side of their heads" with his "2-by-4" -- to his magnanimous goal of "collaborating with them" to "build progressive politics," Freidman's justification for the invasion radically changes without notice or acknowledgment.
This disgusting, violent imagery alone make me wonder whether Friedman even reads his own work. He's advocating nothing short of outright rape and murder, at least back in 2003.
Maybe he himself has short-term memory issues. Maybe he's just praying the American public is truly stupid enough to think the past doesn't have any bearing on what he writes today.
Either way, this is merely another argument to have Friedman removed from any print media or media venue. It'll never happen of course; the world doesn't appear to have that much justice left in it.
