wow...am i on the right list? take everything i said about Friedman and apply it to the great Bradford De Longs' gem here.
ofcourse if he's wittingly or unwittingly being critical of the isreali military knowingly [they try to booby trap some of them in a way that's easy to dismantle] selling weapons to palestinian militants then i of course take it all back.....
instead of saying something ugly and getting kicked off the list (if this is infact the left business observer) i will supply a pertinant quote about Friedman from Fahd Al-Fanik that i wish i had said:
"I have read much of what Arab journalists wrote against Friedman, and I noticed that most
of the arguments voiced against him concerned existing flaws [mentioned by Friedman in
his articles] that we would be better off acknowledging and trying to correct. Being an American,
he has a right to demand that a large Arab state [i.e. Egypt] abide by the will of the U.S. if it
wants to keep receiving billions of American taxpayers' dollars. He has the right to tell another
Arab state [i.e. Saudi Arabia] that its schools produce terrorists. He has the right to blame the
Palestinian leaders for missing the opportunities given to them, preferring rather to espouse
populist positions that are futile."
~M.E.