"We could've hit Saudi Arabia... we could've hit Pakistan"
Yeah, but we didn't. Why? Coz they play along with our little New World Empire based on the Petro-Dollar. Saddam wanted Euros for oil, Gadaffi wanted gold for oil, and now (allegedly, according to Debkafile) Iran wants gold for oil... do we see a pattern here yet, children?
AMEN to all that. Look at a map of the Middle East and you'll never ask again, "Why did we invade Iraq?" And if some Middle East Islamo-fascists decide to fly more planes into our skyscrapers, we'll go back and double down. Now they know.
Mr. Friedman is the best Jewish sit-down comedian. "PEAK of a bubble" hahaha "Nasdaq bubble" "corporate governance bubble" "terrorism bubble" "burst the bubble" "buble said". WOW, three-times Pulitzer Prize winner in the peak of his not so bubbly eloquence :-))
Hard to know whether to laughor cry at such comprehensive moral vacuity. The man is sick sick sick. He needs the services of a competent psychiatrist and how ANYONE can consider his oh so ernest sermonising worthy of attention - other than as evidence of deep moral sickness - is beyond me.
...well? Y'all are letting this type of filth walk around freely, doing as they please...the best that you can do is to call them names on the internet?!!
I think it's time y'all faced up to the truth...without competent leadership you are nothing but a bunch of cowardly hot-air bags! You won't even demand competent leadership (Ron Paul is NOT a competent leader. He's a professional foot-dragger!)
You need to start applying spine-snapping pressure to your "leaders"...IMMEDIATELY!!
Thomas Friedman is mentally unstable. His analysis strains the outer bounds of incredulity. Preposterous and repulsive in equal measures. He is utter Zionist filth. A rat who I wish just one Iraqi mother would squash his skull with one swing of a "very large bat".
Strange, how Friedman makes reference whatsoever to the key component of the "bubble," i.e. Israel, a terrorist, expansionary, racist state, a belligerent, illegal and brutal occupier of Palestinian and other Arab lands. As the US Senate 911 Commission and the Pentagon long since concluded, America's political and financial support of Israel was the prime cause of 9/11. During this interview Friedman (a loyal servant of Israel) demonstrates he is singularly unqualified to write on the ME.
"Because we could"...isn't that the same stupid logic Terrorists resort to, which he stupidly criticizes! What a psychopathic Zionist, who will sell America and its people for the sake of the cancerous state called (Israel).
How many of you anti-war folks had even heard of Iraq before 2003, and how many of you are actually aware of what went on in that country before and after the first gulf war?
And before someone brings up the fact that Saddam's coup was supported by the CIA, wouldn't that give us an even bigger obligation to help the people of Iraq by removing this despot?
When I read your arguments you make it sound as if there would be nothing but peace and stability had we not intervened...
So to the families of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians killed by US bombs and bullets, civilians who had nothing to do w/ 9-11 whatsoever, Thomas Friedman says to them, "Suck on this?" Unbelievable.
You understand that the war was about investing 800 billion dollars (and thousands of U.S. lives, and thousands of Iraqi civilians) in a bubble, you two-faced, out-of-touch pundit, Mr. Friedman?
what a self-important little cunt. does anyone actually listen to this hot air? i usually don't endorse violence but i'd love to see someone slap the shit out of this guy
TF shows his true colors - an intellectual light weight (as shown in books like 'The World is flat)!
I wish he would have been there to understand thta all he says is nonsense, but then he's from the Israel fraction - those open minds like the Ayatollahs!
In a just world, if there was any accountability for our pundit class, Tom Friedman and the rest of his fraudulent ilk would be laughed out of the public square for ever.
His fantastical "bubble" was never a threat to our free and open society. Our own government's reaction to 9/11 is the real threat to our Constitutional freedom and human rights.
The idea that this man is paraded around as anyone worth listening to makes me facepalm so hard I could probably get a concussion. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... the establishment media.
Friedman is what Edmund Burke looks like in the 21st century, except he's not nearly so literate. Burke at least proved self-reflective and self-critical. Friedman is so damned certain of himself. His is a reactionary mind whose polemics surely makes the world a more dangerous place. His ass must be sore sliding down that slippery slope he rides on.
Take a big stick and say "Suck on this!" ------ This is the kind of surreal Hollywood penis-worshipping sadism the dominant media gives us as a supposedly well-thought-out examination of policy on supposedly thoughtful shows like Charlie Rose's. The masses get Tom Friedman while the tiny group of elites running the show get Milton Friedman.
This sounds like some kind of cruel, over-the-top parody of neoconservatism. It's no exaggeration at all to say that Osama bin Laden could have done a few quick search-and-replace commands and re-recorded this verbatim as a manifesto to justify 9/11. The only difference is, Osama would have taken his struggle too seriously to use language like "suck on this," while it's clear that Friedman takes war about as seriously as a video game.
"He's big on the pizza parlor incident where the Israeli's were victims of violence, but fails to mention how Israel has blatantly stolen Palestinian land for hundreds of thousands of its people "because they can."
Friedman's famous advanced thought processes: "We did it because we could!"
Similarly, he's big on the pizza parlor incident where the Israeli's were victims of violence, but fails to mention how Israel has blatantly stolen Palestinian land for hundreds of thousands of its people "because they can."
Oh right, he subscribes to Might Makes Right, as with our illegal and immoral and unnecessary invasion of Iraq.
Thomas Friedman's famous advanced thought processes: "We did it because we could!"
Ugh. Get the uber-dramatic seriousness of the tone, beneath his disgusting words, words like, "we hit Iraq because we could" - one of the most backward justifications known to man for waging violence.
Law of the Jungle! Might makes right! Go, Thommy, go!!!
Whatever intelligence he had was definitely among the casualties of post 911 jingoistic madness. I couldnt bear to listen to The Mustache after a few doses like this.
Can someone do the microexpression and gesture analysis, the handrubbing, the moustache stroking; the prayerful fingertip touching. this guy is an informercial of misinformation. And of course, Cowardly Tom, never served anywhere. Chickenhawk. There are lots of labels for him. But he's essentially just a dummy with a good vocabulary and a megaphone.
What a stupid metaphor his bubble is. What an idiot this man is. He is nuts. What a stupid reason to go to war. This man does not give any reason or rational argument he just talks crap.
Wearing all black against a black background with huge 80's Grace Jones shoulder pads so that your fat Depped head appears to be attempting to free itself from a patch of dark matter? That's...OK.
A one man demonstration of the Chomsky/Herman propaganda model. This little insect has crawled across Charlie's srceen -on PBS mind you- seventy-four times now (*Henry Kissinger* has been on fifty-four times).
@polymath7 Yes, I saw 1 of the 2 Chomsky appearances. Even then, Charlie had to BRING Friedman into it. He quoted Friedman to scold Chomsky, saying his buddy Thom had said that while he admired Chomsky's intellect, he bemoaned that he has turned American achievement "belly up," or some such nonsense. Charlie's disdain for Chomsky was evident throughout. Might as well have clipped a clothespin on his nose. He only gave him a 1/2 hour and copped to it being due to viewers nagging him forever.
Can someone translate this incomprehensible babble of Friedmanese into human english? Friedman is coming to understand what the war was about, but I'm having trouble understanding what the FUCK his incomprehensible babble is about. I give Friedman the WTF????? of the century award. For the last, and for this, century.
Wow - I used to think this guy was smart - dude acts like he's a smart guy but would he talk his big talk if his kids lived in Baghdad - say suck on this son when they go door to door busting terrorist bubble that had nothing to do with Iraq?
I agree, this man is just depraved. He's also the one who gave us the "Friedman Unit" -- six months. Every six months or so, he told us that the following six months would determine -- whatever.
He's just about the most depraved and idiotic little fuck out there in the commentariat. This is what happens when fat little boys don't get laid enough as young men.
This guy is crap.
howardtlewisiiiify 3 weeks ago
"We could've hit Saudi Arabia... we could've hit Pakistan"
Yeah, but we didn't. Why? Coz they play along with our little New World Empire based on the Petro-Dollar. Saddam wanted Euros for oil, Gadaffi wanted gold for oil, and now (allegedly, according to Debkafile) Iran wants gold for oil... do we see a pattern here yet, children?
zq926 1 month ago
AMEN to all that. Look at a map of the Middle East and you'll never ask again, "Why did we invade Iraq?" And if some Middle East Islamo-fascists decide to fly more planes into our skyscrapers, we'll go back and double down. Now they know.
K3vinF 1 month ago
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Mr. Friedman is the best Jewish sit-down comedian. "PEAK of a bubble" hahaha "Nasdaq bubble" "corporate governance bubble" "terrorism bubble" "burst the bubble" "buble said". WOW, three-times Pulitzer Prize winner in the peak of his not so bubbly eloquence :-))
Dolceliana 1 month ago
A tower of intellectualism brought to you by the New York Times. Apparently some readers will suck on anything.
chatelet55 1 month ago 4
Hard to know whether to laughor cry at such comprehensive moral vacuity. The man is sick sick sick. He needs the services of a competent psychiatrist and how ANYONE can consider his oh so ernest sermonising worthy of attention - other than as evidence of deep moral sickness - is beyond me.
sabretache1 1 month ago 6
what a depraved little cock sucker!
sherhak 1 month ago 3
...well? Y'all are letting this type of filth walk around freely, doing as they please...the best that you can do is to call them names on the internet?!!
I think it's time y'all faced up to the truth...without competent leadership you are nothing but a bunch of cowardly hot-air bags! You won't even demand competent leadership (Ron Paul is NOT a competent leader. He's a professional foot-dragger!)
You need to start applying spine-snapping pressure to your "leaders"...IMMEDIATELY!!
RadioFlyffer 1 month ago
@RadioFlyffer You first, tough guy.
JeremyWBlueDuck37 1 month ago
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@JeremyWBlueDuck37 For some reason you wrote "You first, tough guy.", which makes zero sense in the context of what I typed.
If you would like to re-think it and try again, be my guest. Otherwise, have a nice day!
RadioFlyffer 1 month ago
@RadioFlyffer Yeh...cool story bro
jedeye15 4 weeks ago
Here's a man I thought he's smart enough to think that 9/11 can't be done
by a cavemen but again ,he's not going to speak the truth which is natural
to people like him because he has to protect the real criminals.
I'll never read any books written by this Zionist LIAR again .
massimo38 1 month ago 3
Thomas Friedman is mentally unstable. His analysis strains the outer bounds of incredulity. Preposterous and repulsive in equal measures. He is utter Zionist filth. A rat who I wish just one Iraqi mother would squash his skull with one swing of a "very large bat".
fullthrottlealways 1 month ago 3
Strange, how Friedman makes reference whatsoever to the key component of the "bubble," i.e. Israel, a terrorist, expansionary, racist state, a belligerent, illegal and brutal occupier of Palestinian and other Arab lands. As the US Senate 911 Commission and the Pentagon long since concluded, America's political and financial support of Israel was the prime cause of 9/11. During this interview Friedman (a loyal servant of Israel) demonstrates he is singularly unqualified to write on the ME.
straightshooterable 1 month ago 3
Pure schmaltz!
WORKERSANDDREAMERS 1 month ago
"Because we could"...isn't that the same stupid logic Terrorists resort to, which he stupidly criticizes! What a psychopathic Zionist, who will sell America and its people for the sake of the cancerous state called (Israel).
nujaidyy 1 month ago
euro944t 1 month ago 2
How many of you anti-war folks had even heard of Iraq before 2003, and how many of you are actually aware of what went on in that country before and after the first gulf war?
And before someone brings up the fact that Saddam's coup was supported by the CIA, wouldn't that give us an even bigger obligation to help the people of Iraq by removing this despot?
When I read your arguments you make it sound as if there would be nothing but peace and stability had we not intervened...
swaeday 1 month ago
So to the families of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians killed by US bombs and bullets, civilians who had nothing to do w/ 9-11 whatsoever, Thomas Friedman says to them, "Suck on this?" Unbelievable.
kevinkelly262 2 months ago 4
You understand that the war was about investing 800 billion dollars (and thousands of U.S. lives, and thousands of Iraqi civilians) in a bubble, you two-faced, out-of-touch pundit, Mr. Friedman?
DW2CB 2 months ago 2
I dont think the men and women of the US military appreciate being referred to as "boys" and "girls" you fat fuck.
901derek89 2 months ago 3
I wanna know how he delivers his jokes with a straight face.
Mojuggernaut 2 months ago 5
TF is an unbelievable tool.
onthebus17 2 months ago 3
what a self-important little cunt. does anyone actually listen to this hot air? i usually don't endorse violence but i'd love to see someone slap the shit out of this guy
jdsullivan38 2 months ago 5
What an idiot this man is!
MaltingsSE1 2 months ago
TF shows his true colors - an intellectual light weight (as shown in books like 'The World is flat)!
I wish he would have been there to understand thta all he says is nonsense, but then he's from the Israel fraction - those open minds like the Ayatollahs!
walhalla356 2 months ago
What a ding-bat.
RebelThoughts 2 months ago
In a just world, if there was any accountability for our pundit class, Tom Friedman and the rest of his fraudulent ilk would be laughed out of the public square for ever.
filmacher 2 months ago 5
I just vomited a bit. the fact that anyone publishes him is a disgrace.
nathantankus 2 months ago 8
His fantastical "bubble" was never a threat to our free and open society. Our own government's reaction to 9/11 is the real threat to our Constitutional freedom and human rights.
The idea that this man is paraded around as anyone worth listening to makes me facepalm so hard I could probably get a concussion. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... the establishment media.
AmishRakeFight85 2 months ago 7
Total warmongering neocon.
1Rennae2 2 months ago 3
Friedman is what Edmund Burke looks like in the 21st century, except he's not nearly so literate. Burke at least proved self-reflective and self-critical. Friedman is so damned certain of himself. His is a reactionary mind whose polemics surely makes the world a more dangerous place. His ass must be sore sliding down that slippery slope he rides on.
jethomme 2 months ago 3
What an incorrigble fucking cunt. A pseudo-intellect if e'er I saw one.
TheSkrtel37 2 months ago 2
Just listen to how Very Serious he is.
rhizmoe 2 months ago 3
Seriously, NY Times I would have kept my subscription to your paper if you didn't have dildo's like this writing for it.
rogerjab 2 months ago
What a moron. We hit a country that had nothing to do 911 to show how smart we are.
toons321 2 months ago
hey Friedman suck on my fist you imperialist apologist pig
Havaanie 2 months ago 2
Take a big stick and say "Suck on this!" ------ This is the kind of surreal Hollywood penis-worshipping sadism the dominant media gives us as a supposedly well-thought-out examination of policy on supposedly thoughtful shows like Charlie Rose's. The masses get Tom Friedman while the tiny group of elites running the show get Milton Friedman.
mutualpea 2 months ago 5
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TOm is right. We had to tell these fanatics SUCK. ON. THIS. I don't see planes slamming into buildings anymore.
jacktripperman 3 months ago
This sounds like some kind of cruel, over-the-top parody of neoconservatism. It's no exaggeration at all to say that Osama bin Laden could have done a few quick search-and-replace commands and re-recorded this verbatim as a manifesto to justify 9/11. The only difference is, Osama would have taken his struggle too seriously to use language like "suck on this," while it's clear that Friedman takes war about as seriously as a video game.
wlrube 3 months ago 2
@wlrube Well-said.
mutualpea 2 months ago
what a giant MORON, besides a true shill!
dummyrummy 3 months ago 3
Don't feed the animals!
Don't buy his latest excuse of a book!
"He's big on the pizza parlor incident where the Israeli's were victims of violence, but fails to mention how Israel has blatantly stolen Palestinian land for hundreds of thousands of its people "because they can."
Friedman's famous advanced thought processes: "We did it because we could!"
righthand48 3 months ago 2
holy shit, this guy's a psychopath! Who is he? WOH!
redresonant 3 months ago 3
Similarly, he's big on the pizza parlor incident where the Israeli's were victims of violence, but fails to mention how Israel has blatantly stolen Palestinian land for hundreds of thousands of its people "because they can."
Oh right, he subscribes to Might Makes Right, as with our illegal and immoral and unnecessary invasion of Iraq.
Thomas Friedman's famous advanced thought processes: "We did it because we could!"
SandrineDL123 4 months ago 3
Ugh. Get the uber-dramatic seriousness of the tone, beneath his disgusting words, words like, "we hit Iraq because we could" - one of the most backward justifications known to man for waging violence.
Law of the Jungle! Might makes right! Go, Thommy, go!!!
Whatever intelligence he had was definitely among the casualties of post 911 jingoistic madness. I couldnt bear to listen to The Mustache after a few doses like this.
SandrineDL123 4 months ago 3
Tom Friedman is a bloodthirsty mofo.
MooseOfReason 4 months ago 2
Can someone do the microexpression and gesture analysis, the handrubbing, the moustache stroking; the prayerful fingertip touching. this guy is an informercial of misinformation. And of course, Cowardly Tom, never served anywhere. Chickenhawk. There are lots of labels for him. But he's essentially just a dummy with a good vocabulary and a megaphone.
stevelaudig 4 months ago 4
What a stupid metaphor his bubble is. What an idiot this man is. He is nuts. What a stupid reason to go to war. This man does not give any reason or rational argument he just talks crap.
awesome399 4 months ago 3
what a shame when a journalist can't even explain in plain words the easy. Makes u think if he writes those articles/books himself. shame.
kallitou 4 months ago
Wearing all black against a black background with huge 80's Grace Jones shoulder pads so that your fat Depped head appears to be attempting to free itself from a patch of dark matter? That's...OK.
iganzabissassa 4 months ago
X.x KO too much retard
0M3GA1985 4 months ago
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Jews are a cancer that Muslims will finish up because Hitler could not finish the job.
Atlantaboy612 4 months ago
And thomas friedman is a columnist of the LIBERAL NEWYORK TIMES !!!.Disgusting..
TheMythBreaker 4 months ago
@TheMythBreaker: The New York Times is as "liberal" as the conservative corporation that owns it.
NuisanceMan 4 months ago 2
what smug bullshit
arksmk11 4 months ago 7
I say that the people who don't understand what Friedman says are the morons!
TheLouise24 4 months ago
"We hit Iraq because we could." Fascistnating dialogue. Really...
seekirk 4 months ago
@seekirk Yeah, and apparently...THAT'S...ok.
iganzabissassa 4 months ago
What a deplorable explanation.
theWanderingScribe 5 months ago 5
A one man demonstration of the Chomsky/Herman propaganda model. This little insect has crawled across Charlie's srceen -on PBS mind you- seventy-four times now (*Henry Kissinger* has been on fifty-four times).
Chomsky himself has appeared twice.
polymath7 5 months ago 4
@polymath7 Yes, I saw 1 of the 2 Chomsky appearances. Even then, Charlie had to BRING Friedman into it. He quoted Friedman to scold Chomsky, saying his buddy Thom had said that while he admired Chomsky's intellect, he bemoaned that he has turned American achievement "belly up," or some such nonsense. Charlie's disdain for Chomsky was evident throughout. Might as well have clipped a clothespin on his nose. He only gave him a 1/2 hour and copped to it being due to viewers nagging him forever.
SandrineDL123 4 months ago 3
Jesus christ.
alexmonia 5 months ago 2
Can someone translate this incomprehensible babble of Friedmanese into human english? Friedman is coming to understand what the war was about, but I'm having trouble understanding what the FUCK his incomprehensible babble is about. I give Friedman the WTF????? of the century award. For the last, and for this, century.
justsomefellow 6 months ago 5
Wow - I used to think this guy was smart - dude acts like he's a smart guy but would he talk his big talk if his kids lived in Baghdad - say suck on this son when they go door to door busting terrorist bubble that had nothing to do with Iraq?
Should we go door to door in Greenwich CT?
jftp2b 6 months ago 7
I agree, this man is just depraved. He's also the one who gave us the "Friedman Unit" -- six months. Every six months or so, he told us that the following six months would determine -- whatever.
johnm307 6 months ago 7
What a moral and intellectual empty sack.
mattlove1 7 months ago 9
He's just about the most depraved and idiotic little fuck out there in the commentariat. This is what happens when fat little boys don't get laid enough as young men.
tarnopol 1 year ago 63
If petulance, fear and moral confusion could be made into a mustache wax, Friedman would have a lifetime supply. What a sick man.
Toestubber 1 year ago 77
"This bubble is actually going to level the balance of power" - Friedman's metaphorical genius strikes again!
jxhensley 1 year ago 6