THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF TOM FRIEDMAN’S THINKING
My latest at PJ Media is up. It’s a response to the ridiculous op-ed of Tom Friedman’s in yesterday’s New York Times. Friedman wants us to “move on to 9/12″ and calls Americans “stupid” for allowing 9/11 to knock “America completely out of balance.”
A sample:
Friedman doesn’t want to move on from 9/11. He wants to pretend that 9/11 never happened. He wants to return to the time where our “openness†cost us dearly. This is not to say that reforms shouldn’t be made to policies that have shown themselves to be stupid or ineffective. That too would be irrational. But Friedman’s thesis is that the precautions we have taken since 9/11 are making us unpopular around the world and have roiled our politics here at home.
I must admit he has a valid point about politicians and 9/11. In an obvious dig at Rudy Giuliani, Friedman writes that he won’t vote for anyone for president who runs on 9/11. I, too, am through with the pols exploiting the tragedy for one reason or another, trying to show one side stupid and the other unpatriotic. I am sick to death of the arguments over who was more at fault, what should have been done differently, and most of all, the 9/11 truth movement, whose shrill stupidity is a most unwelcome addition to the history of that tragic date.
But you can’t move on to 9/12 without acknowledging that 9/11 happened. It is apparent that Friedman believes the US would be a better place if 9/11 never occurred and we never had to respond to the dangers it exposed. This is not only stating the obvious but calls into question Mr. Friedman’s cognitive thinking skills.
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