Friedman in fantasyland
Thomas Froedman:
"I have a confession to make: I am the foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times and I didn't listen to one second of the 9/11 hearings and I didn't read one story in the paper about them. Not one second. Not one story.
"Lord knows, it's not out of indifference to 9/11. It's because I made up my mind about that event a long time ago: It was not a failure of intelligence, it was a failure of imagination. We could have had perfect intelligence on all the key pieces of 9/11, but the fact is we lacked ? for the very best of reasons ? people with evil enough imaginations to put those pieces together and realize that 19 young men were going to hijack four airplanes for suicide attacks against our national symbols and kill as many innocent civilians as they could, for no stated reason at all."
The column goes downhill from there with a litany of liberal fantsies ending with a Kerry McCain ticket. The world would not be a better place with Tom's fantasies, because none of them have much to do with the real world.
The McCain on the ticket would not be a "national unity" ticket because his constituency has always been in the Democrat party. Most Republicans would view him as a traitor who betrayed the party and his ideals for a chance to carry a bucket of warm spit for Kerry. For some reasons people like Friedman and Chris Mathews just do not get this point. It is unlikely he would pull more than a fraction of Republican votes but the reaction among Republicans would make the Dem's Florida tantrum look like a picnic.
Thomas Froedman:
"I have a confession to make: I am the foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times and I didn't listen to one second of the 9/11 hearings and I didn't read one story in the paper about them. Not one second. Not one story.
"Lord knows, it's not out of indifference to 9/11. It's because I made up my mind about that event a long time ago: It was not a failure of intelligence, it was a failure of imagination. We could have had perfect intelligence on all the key pieces of 9/11, but the fact is we lacked ? for the very best of reasons ? people with evil enough imaginations to put those pieces together and realize that 19 young men were going to hijack four airplanes for suicide attacks against our national symbols and kill as many innocent civilians as they could, for no stated reason at all."
The column goes downhill from there with a litany of liberal fantsies ending with a Kerry McCain ticket. The world would not be a better place with Tom's fantasies, because none of them have much to do with the real world.
The McCain on the ticket would not be a "national unity" ticket because his constituency has always been in the Democrat party. Most Republicans would view him as a traitor who betrayed the party and his ideals for a chance to carry a bucket of warm spit for Kerry. For some reasons people like Friedman and Chris Mathews just do not get this point. It is unlikely he would pull more than a fraction of Republican votes but the reaction among Republicans would make the Dem's Florida tantrum look like a picnic.
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