October 24, 2007

Heartache: Friedman Longs for the Good Old Days When the U.S. Was Losing the War in Iraq

Friedman's nuance in the NY Times:

I don’t know whether it was the sheer agony of the debate over Gen. David Petraeus’s testimony, or the fact that the surge really has dampened casualties, or the failure by Democrats to force an Iraq withdrawal through Congress, or the fact that all the leading Democratic presidential contenders have signaled that they will not precipitously withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq, but the air has gone out of the Iraq debate.

That is too bad.
Jules Crittenden offers some nuance of his own:
Friedman presents us with something different. The double-reverse chickendove. War supporter turned surrender enthusiast makes ironic funny about how painful this war has been for him. The terrible barrage of headlines, slogging through all those long, bitter thumbsuckers. News is hell. But apparently, he hasn’t been reading it.
Read the rest.

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 08:43 AM | |