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May 17, 2006
Catching Tom Friedman
F.A.I.R. has a rather amusing timeline on Tom Friedman and his continually slipping 6 month timelines for Iraq. (FAIR)
Friedman's appeal seems to rest on his ability to discuss complex issues in the simplest possible terms. On a recent episode of MSNBC's Hardball (5/11/06), for example, Friedman boiled down the intricacies of the Iraq situation into a make-or-break deadline: "Well, I think that we're going to find out, Chris, in the next year to six months - probably sooner - whether a decent outcome is possible there, and I think we're going to have to just let this play out."
That confident prediction would seem a lot more insightful, however, if Friedman hadn't been making essentially the same forecast almost since the beginning of the Iraq War. A review of Friedman's punditry reveals a long series of similar do-or-die dates that never seem to get any closer.
The citations are numerous and funny in context, check them out.
Posted by Chip Spear at May 17, 2006 12:31 PM