[Peace-discuss] Capturing Friedman
David Green
davegreen84 at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 3 11:17:58 CDT 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/opinion/03friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
The subject reference is to a movie about an accused child molester. Thomas
Friedman is a pompous, pretentious, self-absorbed gasbag. But what he says
indicates how (liberal) people who own the country think. Today's columan is
important for a number of reasons: the promotion of a frightening "radical
center" (analagous to Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s promotion 60 years ago of a
"vital center" to favor the invasion of Korea, etc); and the specter of the
cooperation of that proto-fascist, establishment "radical center" with whatever
aspect of the Tea Party movement is more authentically fascist--i.e., TP leaders
and publicists, rather than the inchoate populism of many of its adherents (with
nowhere else to go). And Friedman's posturing that equates the "far left" with
the "far right," without mentioning their common opposition to war. Unlike
pundits like Walter Lippmann of an earlier era, Friedman has no measured
conception of the use of our military--Lippmann actually opposed the Vietnam War
as inconsistent with "containment", and was punished with obscurity late in his
life for doing so. Friedman would not allow this to happen; thus he will support
a Hindenburg cutting a deal with a Hitler, and will volunteer to write a book
justifying it, which will be better than anything Goebbels could have come up
with.
DG
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