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combining the worst aspects of American Triumphalism with the myopic earnestness of the Free Marketeers saying things like "I want to fill them ,(the Iraqis), with Coca-Cola and Big Macs..." as a way of swaying them to the glories of American Commerce and thus convince them what a glorious enterprise awaited them by turning their country into a land of strip malls lined with American businesses. It's been this purposeful blurring of the distinction between the notions of commerce and democracy that has been so galling (and so damaging to our national diologue), that I find so reprehensible, especially from hacks like Mr. Friedman who seem to float above the fray like a mere gadfly, dropping his half-baked speculations like there was serious theoretical thought behind them.
I for one have not heard a substantial mea culpa from any of these f**kers who cheered on this fiasco with such impunity.
