For many years, I wrote on Tom Friedman's forum on NYTimes. Friedman is a great one for li'l zingers and truisms, he wrote well about Lebanon, but he's manifestly guilty of rah-rah-ing this Iraq War, while the truisms-du-jour pointed to Wicked Owd Saddam and his
Weapons of Mass Distraction.
I suppose everyone who comments upon the Middle East is guilty of repeating someone else's truisms, I have stoutly avoided as many such truisms as I can. Here is a lengthy rebuttal,
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