Tommy Boy has a Point

Tom Friedman had a reputation as one of the most astute observers of the Middle East before he decided to jump on the Iraq war bandwagon. That led to a two year period of insanity where he kept insisting that things could just still work out, providing Bush would just pay more attention to Tom Friedman.

He was interviewed on NBC by little Russ today and said a lot of things that made sense. One that caught my attention was his analysis of why Bush has become the most hated American President (in the rest of the world). His idea went something like the following:

The rest of the world likes to make fun of American optimism and naivette, but secretly has always looked up to it. Before Bush, America seemed to stand for something, to have some principles. The cold, calculating, Bush, Cheney, and Rice, with their cynical lies and hypocrisy destroy that hope, and the world hates Bush for that.

Now this is just me, but the fact that they always seem to calculate wrong isn't exactly inspiring either.

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