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sigh
I am actually going to pick up the Afghanistan Papers next week.
A reminder that lots of supposedly smart people have proposed supposed simple, easy and "obvious" solutions to approaching Afghanistan from the start and they seemed to never go as planned or materialize any real forward progress that would last.
Thomas Friedman has made a career out of being wrong about everything. He was an early defender of Vladimir Putin (he wrote an article in 2001 in which he argued that we should "keep rootin' for Putin"), shamelessly slobbered all over Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman, and said this about the Iraq War:
"SUCK. ON. THIS."
I had a feeling that the explosion outside the airport was a result of a US bomb. Reports say they bombed a vehicle laden with explosives. Did it really have to be done in a residential area? I could see them being between a rock and a hard place on this and wonder if the details will come out.
Interesting. So, now that we have a large group of people who believe in authoritarianism because they are weak and believe in overthrowing a democracy through force, he's saying we need to have the military go door to door and tell them "Suck on this"?
Pretty much. He's saying that after 9/11, America needed to show the Muslim world who was boss by waving its "big stick" in their faces.
It's disgusting.
Hasn't stopped us before...
EDIT:
For some reason, I find this more disturbing than tradtional explosives.
Could have sworn there was something earlier in the year that qualified as his first war crime.