Got an hour to kill? Watch Tom Friedman explain to Charlie Rose why we needed to respond to 9/11 by going to Iraq, taking out a big stick, going door to door from Basra to Baghdad, and saying ‘suck on this’. This interview occurred on May 30, 2003. Charlie Rose begins it by saying that the war is over and that we won it. In fact, they talk about the war in almost completely past tense terms.
It’s hard to understand why this was supposed to be a rational and effective response to 19 dudes that we not from Iraq carrying out a terrorist attack in the United States.
