Friedman Compares Afghanistan To 'Special Needs Baby'

Who is this guy. For that matter, who are these pundits and what made them so smart? . Did you notice that they are almost always wrong?

That's it...not having plenty of dough is what "terrifies" Friedman. Over-rich shill.

Friedman may as well compare Afghanistan to Trig.

And why is Afghanistan a 'special needs baby'? Maybe something like 'some countries need to be hit up the side of the head with a 2 x 4"? ?

Come on now, let's not all gang up on Tommy. He apologized on the Daily Show last week for being a loudmouth re: Iraq. And he was downright brilliant on Charlie Rose 2 weeks ago. He's still got some important things to say if we can get over the tendency of all liberal bloggers to rip him to shreds.

Friedman is a pig whose noxious theories of globalization justified our corporate overlords' destruction of the American working class and my state of Michigan in particular. I'd love to see him bludgeoned in the head with a riding mower until he was on par with a Special Needs Child but I'm afraid it'd be a short show.

I have no patience for the patronizing of the ultra-wealthy Lecturing Class telling my why I should enjoy being their slave.

Shocking and tasteless as Friedman's analogy is - and I agree it could have been stated more genially - his point is a good one. This country has no business taking on such a problematic situation that will be costly, time-consuming and has little chance for improvement. We are already going into debt for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to the tune of $10 billion per month. That amounts to $1.2 trillion over ten years, almost exactly the amount that reforming our health care "system" is projected to cost. To continue this expenditure - not to mention the loss of lives - is folly on the same scale as Friedman's unfortunate example.

Also, btw, three Pulitzers explains why the MSM is going down the tubes.

Imagine if he was actually correct about anything.

Get over Friedman's unfortunate and politically incorrect choice of metaphor.

He's absolutely right on the substance. This is a situation that will require enormous amounts of time, energy and special care and we just don't have the money, energy or focus to do it when beset by problems of our own of once in several generations magnitude.

And so Western Paternalism reaches its final absurd height.

God, who watches these natural history museum dioramas, 'Newsies bellowing from the Tar Pits', anymore except for the usual suspects themselves?
Sad.
Someday cable experts will discover Cokie and Stephie's bones in the remains of the Newseum of Unnatural Journalism and postulate post modern man was unusually small and hairy...

The best way to 'pacify' Afghanistan would be to take a fraction of what we spend killing civilians and destroying what little infrastructure is left after 30 years of U.S. instigated war and expend it providing the Afghan people with what they lack which is EVERYTHING. And then get the fuck out, all the way out, and quit propping up another vicious venal comprador puppet government. But shucks, that would spoil a lot of good business for the usual crew, as well as disrupting the eternal guns and drugs nexus, not to mention fucking up the pipeline.

And yes, the world is round, it's Freidman's head that's flat

Special needs baby? Hardly. More like a person who was mistakenly sent to a psychiatric hospital and lobotomized. By the U.S., Saudis, and Pakistan. They built a new cold war weapon called Islamic extemists and now they're trying to control it. Woops!

why does the media continue to shoot themselves in the foot by allowing snake oil salesmen like mr. friedman to fill the airwaves with his views without asking him tough questions

this guy is really something

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