Sunday, November 30, 2008

The moral outlook of our foreign policy experts

Glenn Greenwald writes about The Dangers of Revisionism: Tom Friedman tries to hide his "very big stick" Salon 11/30/08.

His post reminded me of this video of Friedman being interviewed by Charlie Rose, on 05/30/03 not long after the invasion of Iraq, when the war was still "over". Greenwald quotes from the interview, but the video adds to the rather sickening effect:



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