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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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  • Monday, December 1, 2008 03:35 AM

    Friedman

    Tom Friedman has twisted himself into a pretzel - no far more complex, we have to go into knot mathematics to figure it out - with each phase of anything he sticks his nose in. This man is a fraud, and yet, like Mr Kristol, is given his NYTimes page to pontificate the latest revision of his ever-wrong stances. He is emblematic of the utter corruption - moral, fiscal, social - into which the USA has fallen. Friedman, like the others (including Bush) is evidently shameless and incapable of introspection or self-criticism. To pretend this man is an "intellectual" is the worst fallacy. He is a self-justifying fool.

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