A New York Times’ Columnist’s Dehumanizing Warmongering

Thomas Friedman loves a good war. Or a bad one.

In the early 2000s, he was the New York Times’ most enthusiastic cheerleader for George W. Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the American counterinsurgency in Iraq went south, Friedman became notorious for his constant pronouncements, year after year, that we needed “another six months” to turn around the war and achieve a “decent outcome.” Other commentators started calling “another six months” a “Friedman Unit.”

Given this record, I probably shouldn’t have been surprised by his latest contribution to making American discourse about foreign policy even more bloodthirsty and simple-minded. But I was.

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