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August 24, 2003
Friedman -becoming more and more contemptible
His column today is an exercise is stupidity.
This guy claims to know something about the region? What the fuck kind of moron claims the Islamists etc. do not believe "their own propaganda" about the war, i.e. it is about oil, and claims that they "know" it is about ideas. What a moronic self deluded fucking idiot.
First, it's a false dilemma - the war was and is about both, and most Arabs I know deeply and sincerely believe it is about oil. Two levels to that, the less informed see it as a grab for Iraqi oil, pure theft. The better informed see it for what it is, a power play deeply related to the oil markets as a security and power issue - as well as neo Con obsessions with the OPEC angle. Freidman is a self deluded fool if he thinks this is not the case - of course he's on this little ideas kick and has deluded himself that this bullshit effort can work.
Second, while indeed there is an ideas component in this, the reality is that in the near term this is about power, pure and simple. And Israel.
Good fucking lord, one can clearly see the similarities between Freidman think and Neo Con think. Same roots, just the neo Cons went into the Right end of the spectrum whereas Freidman remains Center - Left. Highly center in the end.
Delusions.
Incredible, this guy is truly a fucking idiot.
Posted by The Lounsbury at August 24, 2003 05:52 PM
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