KW: And another…the comments are interesting

Ladies and Gentlemen, we present you the Middle East columnist of the ‘paper of the record’, Tom Friedman:

Iran Is Crushing Freedom One Country at a Time

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Having covered the Middle East my entire adult life, I’m seeing some trends emerging there that I’ve never seen before.
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The Iranian ayatollahs even had to largely shut down their own internet to prevent the domestic rebellion from spreading. Ever since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2002, Iran has never wanted to see a stable, multisectarian, secular democracy emerge in Baghdad, because then Iranian Shiites would be asking why Iraqi Shiites get to live freely and they don’t.

biggerFor the record. The invasion of Iraq began on March 19 2003, not in 2002. Friedman should know that. He and his paper were major pro-war propagandists in the run up to it.

During the first three years of the war Friedman went on to predict 14 times that ‘success’ in Iraq would come within the “next six month“, a distance now known as a Friedman unit.

If the New York Times and its main Middle East columnist can not even get that date right what else do they get wrong?

A cursory read of Friedman’s anit-Iranian column suggests that the answer is “everything”.

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