Speaking of burlap sacks and hammers, via Atrios, we have some classic Friedman, circa 2003.
Yes, he did say ‘suck on this’ on the Charlie Rose Show. Should he still have a job at the paper of record? I think not.
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Did he really talk about getting out a really big stick and having american boys and girls go from house to house in Iraq saying “Suck on this?”
These people are amoral and sick. No wonder they support the war.
From Basra to Baghdad, American boy and girls are going around saying ‘what part of this sentence don’t you understand? Suck on this. We went into Iraq because we could.’
That’s essentially what he said.
The stupid…it burns.
it really does. It hurts, too.
the rationale for friedman keeping his job is precisely the same rationale that keeps kristol, pollack, o’hanlon, wolfowitz, kagan, et al, employed… it’s all about staying faithful to them whut brung ya, as dear departed molly used to say…
Thomas Friedman is a great big, self-important, overblown empty sack of hot gaseous substance. As a Middle East expert, he is a sick joke. As a deep thinker, he is a pathetic joke.
I thought we were suppose to be sucking on WMD, not a big stick. I guess its easy to say “bring-it-on” & “suck-on-this” when your not over there going house to house, or have family members fighting in Iraq.