JustOneMinute (Free subscription) | yesterday
A couple of weeks back Tom Friedman argued for a scaling back of the US effort in Afghanistan; now he sounds similar themes in calling for the US to come home from the Middle East: The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has...
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Video: Dov Seidman talks “HOW” with Charlie Rose What’s on Tom Friedman’s mind these days? The best-selling author and acclaimed New York Times columnist is embracing the work of Dov Seidman, the author of How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything in Business (and in Life) and founder of LRN . For Friedman, along with many business leaders, writers and thinkers,...
Yourish.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Looks like even Tom Friedman has discovered that the secret to Middle East peacemaking isn’t the Obama Way: This peace process movie is not going to end differently just because we keep playing the same reel. It is time for a radically new approach. And I mean radical. I mean something no U.S. administration has ever [...]
The Osterley Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's surprising that Tom Friedman - of all bloody people - would go here, and yet he does: Let’s just get out of the picture. Let all these leaders stand in front of their own people and tell them the truth: “My fellow citizens: Nothing is happening; nothing is going to happen. It’s just you and me and the problem we own.” Indeed, it’s time for us to dust off James...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Thomas Friedman has concluded that the United States should abandon efforts to bring about peace in the Middle East. Friedman's reasoning is characteristically weak in spots. For example, he says twice that we need to "fix" our own country -- meaning what, that we need to become more like Red China? -- as if our diplomatic efforts in the Middle East are somehow interfering...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become a bad play. It is obvious that all the parties are just acting out the same old scenes, with the same old tired clich�s -- and that no one believes any of it anymore. There is no romance, no sex, no excitement, no urgency -- not even a sense of importance anymore. The only thing driving the peace process today is inertia and diplomatic habit....
Six Kids and a Full Time Job (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Tom Friedman has a great op/ed in the NY Times . He nails it and here is the crux: "Administration has ever dared to do: Take down our “Peace-Processing-Is-Us” sign and just go home. Right now we want it more than the parties. They all have other priorities today. And by constantly injecting ourselves we’ve become their Novocain. We relieve all the political pain from...
Cracker Squire (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Tom Friedman writes in The New York Times : The fact is, the only time America has been able to advance peace — post-Yom Kippur War, Camp David, post-Lebanon war, Madrid and Oslo — has been when the parties felt enough pain for different reasons that they invited our diplomacy, and we had statesmen — Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, George Shultz, James Baker and Bill Clinton...
The Aristocrats (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
how to write, the tom friedman method get out of bed brush teeth drop acid RiT kooB . this made me laugh , tf really is a ridiculous figure, also too anyone who takes him the slightest bit seriously. 'the mustache of understanding' moniker fits him perfectly. .
Shadow of the Hegemon (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Elizabeth Kolbert's takedown of Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's execrable Superfreakonomics is one of the most elegant and devastating critiques I've read since Matt Taibbi carved up Tom Friedman with that immortal line "Forget the Cinnabon. Name me a herd animal that hunts. Name me one." In the review, she repeats the old story about how New York was, at the turn of the...
MyDD (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
... needs to do is focus more on crafting a presidential narrative rather than on one media outlet. As Tom Friedman said in one of his increasingly rare agreeable moments , Obama's otherwise masterful speeches have "not tied all his programs into a single narrative that shows the links between his health care, banking, economic, climate, energy, education and foreign policies. Such a narrative...
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | yesterday
Writing in the New York Times, Tom Friedman (Tom Friedman!) urges the Obama administration to dust off an old line from the Bush 41 administration, fold up its tent and go home. This peace process movie is not going to end differently just because we keep playing the same reel. It is time for a radically new approach. And I mean radical. I mean something no U.S. administration has ever...
Hot Air (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's not often that I agree with Tom Friedman, and even in this instance my agreement comes with heavy qualifiers. However, Friedman's essential point in today's column, that the US has no reason to pursue the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, is entirely correct. We would do worse than to ...
Ace of Spades (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Welcome to the club Tom Friedman! This peace process movie is not going to end differently just because we keep playing the same reel. It is time for a radically new approach. And I mean radical. I mean something no...
War in Context (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Is using aid to Israel as leverage becoming a mainstream idea? By Glenn Greenwald, Salon, November 8, 2009 Tom Friedman today has some very harsh words for both the Israelis and Palestinians, both of whom — he claims — are not serious about reaching a peace agreement. As a result, these are the principles which Friedman [...]
