Tom Friedman has an understanding of the Middle East that a drunk hedge fund manager who corners you at an Upper East Side cocktail party to share his brilliant thoughts does. Way too many people have told him he’s smart, which has led to columns like this one. nytimes.com/2024/04/16/opi…
@yashar Ooof. Quite the opposite is true. It would encourage armed groups and Iran that their strategy is working.
@JoeTruzman @yashar 💯Friedman was a great reporter 40 years ago but he's been trafficking in pablum & phoning it in for years.
@JoeTruzman @yashar If that were to happen, I agree that Hamas and Tehran would be outraged and would do everything in their power to prevent it. But how would it say that their strategy is working?
@JoeTruzman @yashar In fact, Every Thing encourages Every Party that their thinking is correct, at Every Turn. Twitter is just the puppet show of that. There’s the conflict, and there’s the marketing.