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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (42632)	5/7/2004 12:58:12 AM
From: LindyBill	of 793801

The blogs are really pounding Friedman's column. Donald Sensing - Fisking Friedman In response to the breathless, panicky piece by Thomas Friedman in today's NYT, Allah is in the House posted a devastating, thorough response. A short excerpt of an RTWT post: It's not Friedman's Arab toadying that's so galling, though. Anyone who's read him over the past few years has long since gotten used to that. What's galling is his suggestion that a sufficiently humiliating apology for what happened at Abu Ghraib might actually have an effect on world opinion--as though anti-Americanism were something keyed to specific events rather than to broad differences in ideology. Friedman would have us believe there are teeming multitudes out there who want to like us, are trying to like us, but just can't get a leg over because we keep doing awful things to break their hearts. Luckily, they're so open-minded and forgiving that we might be able to win them back if we put the Friedman plan into action ... It is already time for the US government (not just the executive branch) to move on to other, far more pressing business. The criminal probes and inspector-general investigations must continue, but the front-page, top-of-the-hour billing the story keeps getting is now harming rather than helping our efforts. And so is the vicious speech coming from Capitol Hill.

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