Thomas Friedman: Semi - A Honest Blame Game

Thomas Friedman today writes about the inaction of the Muslim world and it's effect on the Middle East. Of course he first manages to throw stones at George Bush and Tony Blair, the only Western leaders with the balls to have taken career defining stands to try and do something or Putin for allowing murderous business to continue as usual but then again, that would put accountability on the section of the world he has championed for two decades.

Tom offers interesting insight but his blame of the administration for trying to do it on the cheap is old and thin. Maybe if he once added that the administration did what they thought was best as they were being fought tooth and nail every step of the way by a media out to destroy them by influencing public support, I'd have a little more respect for him. Instead he remains a very knowledgeable writer whom we can all read for profit once we filter through his naive, childish rants. Too many years with a New York Times charge account.

The Silence That Kills
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: March 2, 2007

On Feb. 20, The A.P. reported from Afghanistan that a suicide attacker disguised as a health worker blew himself up near “a crowd of about 150 people who had gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open an emergency ward at the main government hospital in the city of Khost.” A few days later, at a Baghdad college, a female Sunni suicide bomber blew herself up amid students who were ready to sit for exams, killing 40 people.

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/opinion/02friedman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin