Magic of metaphors : Op-Ed Journey of Thomas Friedman

hamidm2 mian: ....i am quite surprised you don't love tom friedman......he fits the exact profile of americans that you, generally, line up behind....

what gives?

yes Tom is right in saying that the world is turning flat, flattened by the carpet bombings of one country after another. Afghanistan and Iraq have been flattened. Iran and Syria may be next. Saudi Arabia is not far behind. Could very well be Pakistan and Burma's turn next.

Tom Friedman and Judith Miller, both found their voice via the "liberal" NY Times. They are both jews and have served an important role in the giant war machine that america is.

Tom serves a useful purpose in american mainstream media - he has this natural knack for abstractly intellectualizing and rationalizing perpetual war abroad while maintaining perpetual terror at home. Given his taste for metaphors, the american people who dont even understand their mortgage terms, get this feeling that this guy must be saying something important and big about foreign affairs. Afterall, he was one of those journalists who successfully convinced americans that attacking iraq was like avenging 9/11.

His partner in crime, Judith Miller was disgracefully fired from NY Times after years of writing horror film like accounts of Saddam's plans to occupy Washington DC and his secret dealings with outer space aliens. So successful was she that during the initial euphoric days of Iraqi occupation, she even led a small platoon of american soldiers inside Iraq in search of WMDs - that was a rarity because jews typically plan wars and tend to stay away from front lines. So she got fired from NY Times and then jailed because in her zeal to fulfill Israeli agenda she turned on america and was considered an accomplice in outing a CIA operative's identity. But since jews take care of their own, she wasnt villified at all in jewish run media and in fact she found a new home in the jewish Rupert Murdoch run Wall Street Journal, where she is now dishing out intellectual advice on, what else, Iraq!

Re: # 2 Mr.Hamid , the article is "tough". Person like you should explain the article. It is bumper going over head, too abstract for my brain.

Re: # 1 Your comment is profound ?

tom friedman reminds me of the 7 dollars an hour security card in the lobby of our office building who used to give advice on picking stocks during the internet boom ! ..... sometimes he reminds me of romair