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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: puborectalis who wrote (790145)6/16/2014 12:39:55 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1583143
 
>> To call it cheerleading is just stupid and obnoxious.

He wasn't cheerleading. He believed, just as the Bush administration did, that the Iraqi people would seize the opportunity they were given, as did I. All three were wrong.

Friedman, for at least two or three years afterward kept saying, time and again, "The Iraqi people are going to have to make a decision within the next SIX months." Pretty soon a couple years had gone by, things had gotten really bad, and he was still waiting on the decision to be made.

Friedman had a lot of background on the Middle East. As did the people who were calling the shots in the Bush Administration. Everyone turned out to be wrong. Friedman, like all Democrats, ran from their words. Bush didn't have the luxury.
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