Thomas Friedman: Monday Morning Quaterback

Tom Friedman of the NY Times writes an interesting but incomplete column critiquing the Bush Administration's decision making history and resulting ramifications, but manages to leave out many key details, diluting his argument.

One of the points Mr. Friedman and so many others leave out is that without the president's strong stance on Iraq, North Korea would never have come back to the table as the U.S. would have been continued to be viewed as an empty threat. Many in the world may despise Bush, but they do take him quite seriously.

A Foreign Policy Built on Do-Overs
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: February 23, 2007

Watching the Bush team wrestle with Iran, North Korea and Iraq reminds me of something that used to be said of the Reagan administration: The right hand never knew what the far right hand was doing.

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/opinion/23friedman.html