[miss marmelstein]

Good column but it’s a little confusing because Friedman’s idiotic words are not italicized or in quotes. I kept thinking it was the author’s words until I realized it couldn’t be.

[Sherman Logan]

Friedman was right about this part:

The corrupt autocracies that gave us the previous 50 years of “stability” were just slow-motion disasters. Read the U.N.’s 2002 Arab Human Development Report about what deficits of freedom, women’s empowerment and knowledge did to Arab peoples over the last 50 years.

Where he is wrong is his implicit assumption that their Islamist replacements will be an improvement. Things can always get worse.

One of the leftists' favorite targets for outrage is the US support during the Cold War for right-wing dictators like Pinochet. Huge amounts have been written about this evil government, leading me to assume it had compiled some massive number of murders.

Last night ran across the report of the official Chilean government commission, one not at all friendly to Pinochet. They put the total murdered by his government at less than 3,000 in 17 years.

That's a rounding error for the murder rate of multiple Communist regimes, which Pinochet saved his country from.

[SJackson]

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[Iron Munro]

Friedman and other fools like him still won’t accpt the fact that they were, and still are, Obama’s punks.

They might be surprised that the “Arab Spring” made things worse, not better but Obama knew where it was headed from day-1.

These fools are used by Obama to legitimize him and give him cover and they stll slobber all over themselves at the chance to do it again.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Yes, Thomas Friedman can be and is that stupid. PC think stupifies. Prolonged detachment from reality deludes. Thomas Friedman admires the Chinese system of government. He’s only writes and thinks along certain PC lines. Has done long term damage to his reasoning ability to where he has none left.

[rollo tomasi]

Arab Spring = Undermining the US Congress to dispose of secular regimes in favor of an Islamic caliphate.

Bush the senior, although got approval of Congress, kick-started this perverted strategy (Although some UN member Nation States wanted to make $$$$ off of Saddam first).

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Just when you think that the limits to stupidity have been defined and delineated along comes Friedman who plunges to levels of stupidity that nobody had previously knew existed.