There is no excuse for his getting this wrong. The history of american involvement in afghanistan is covered in less than 20 pages in the first chapter.

He misleads about the idea of anyone imagining before 9-11-01 that hijacked airliners might be used as missiles, reminiscent of the same lies by condi rice. He also fully supports rumsfeld's lies and he claims that the bush administration had to lie a...  Read More

A skilled writer, friedman has the earmarkings of a propagandist. Friedman does his readers no favours by leaving them with an unjustified sense of confidence that current american policy will prevail. Friedman is also dishonest when he writes about a...  Read More

I understand that * bin laden believes the same of his dream of caliphate. The fact that no arab regimes have yet succumbed to a mass-islamist movement from below, is no indication that that will not happen in the future. The * in spain was almost cer...  Read More

Friedman also poo-poohs the 2002 saudi peace offer, characterizing it as nothing but political posturing. Friedman gives a really bizarre justification for the us policy of arming both iran and iraq during the * war which raged between these two natio...  Read More