Guess who failed?

I generally loathe the Boulder Daily Camera, but I went looking to see if some friends of ours in Boulder had gotten married. Of course I couldn't find the wedding info, so I ended up reading Friedman's "Letter from Istanbul"  at the Camera. 

He had me in the first paragraph, wherein he admitted that Turkey's Islamist government is "focused not on joining the European Union but the Arab League -- no, scratch that, on joining the Hamas-Hezbollah-Iran resistance front against Israel."

After that, though, Tommy started acting more like his usual self, so I was rapidly losing interest, until I came to this:

Israel's failure to apply its creativity to solving the Palestinian problem is another dangerous vacuum.

Wow, imagine that.  All we needed to do was apply our creativity!  Here we've been getting ourselves maimed and murdered all these years when what we should have been doing was "solving the Palestinian problem."   Who knew?

 

The suggestion box is now OPEN; please feel free to apply creativity.

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Tom Friedman has always reminded me of the obnoxious kid in grade school -- you know: the one who was always the first to stick his hand in the air to answer the teacher's question, only to come up with the wrong answer. Most of these smarty-pants acquire a little humility over the years, and finally learn to keep their mouths shut. But a terrible thing happened to Friedman on his journey to adulthood: He was given a pulpit and a bullhorn -- courtesy of the New York Times -- and he has been a pain-in-the-neck to thinking people ever since. He is not a journalist in any meaningful sense of the word; he is a classic nudnik.