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Tom Friedman starts to get it

12 o'clock, May 14, 2004

Or as he puts it:

I admit, I’m a little slow. Because I tried to think about something as deadly serious as Iraq, and the post-9/11 world, in a nonpartisan fashion — as Joe Biden, John McCain and Dick Lugar did — I assumed the Bush officials were doing the same. I was wrong. They were always so slow to change course because confronting their mistakes didn’t just involve confronting reality, but their own politics.

In a side note, I was woken up in the middle of last night by some asshole in either the alley or the parking garage having a drunken argument about what a great guy George W. Bush is.

Naturally this did not endear me to his argument or to his candidate. I know it takes two sides to make an argument, but since this asshole was yelling loud enough to disturb my sleep and the anti-Bush guy wasn’t — kind of like talk radio, at least till Michael Powell went after Howard Stern — it’s the pro-Bush asshole I’m blaming.

Comments

Yesterday, I had a coworker explaining to me how it was perfectly acceptable for the U.S. to torture Iraqis in prison because they're all Al Queda terrorists.

This country is fucking doomed.

—— JeremyT, 1:47 PM, Friday, May 14, 2004

Clearly the anti-Bush guy was provoking the pro-Bush guy, who could clearly only respond by getting louder. Because you know, you can make something true if you say it loudly enough. Or so talk radio has taught me.

Why do you hate America?

—— Jon, 1:55 PM, Friday, May 14, 2004

Yeah, David, did you ever think maybe the guy had Talking Loud Disease? Did you?

People with TLD are just like you and me, only LOUDER (and in love with GWB).

—— Bondgirl, 1:19 PM, Saturday, May 15, 2004

Give the guy a break. After all, his perceived reality is cracking at the seams and he must do everything he can to hold it together. Show a little compassion for once :-P

—— Simon Owens, 2:25 PM, Saturday, May 15, 2004

that friedman editorial was hysterical, like listening to yer drunk grandmother catching up to a conversation that ended thirty minutes ago. david brooks, too: "There was a failure to anticipate the response our power would have on the people we sought to liberate." everyone i know predicted this would happen, brooksie.

i just want to pat them both on the hands and say, "it's ok. shh shh shh. just go back to sleep."

—— barth, 10:43 AM, Sunday, May 16, 2004