A Foreign Policy Built on Do-Overs(BARF ALERT!!!)

NY SLIMES ^ | 02/23/07 | THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

[shoebooty]

Watching the Bush team wrestle with Iran, North Korea and Iraq reminds me of something that used to be said of the Reagan administration: The right hand never knew what the far right hand was doing. In fact, my bet is that when the inside history of the Bush team is written, we will discover that, contrary to its carefully managed image of a disciplined core operating from consistent, conservative principles, it has actually been one of the most internally divided administrations — ever. The only thing the Bush folks all agreed on was that they would never do anything Bill Clinton did. Beyond that, it’s been a food fight. The trial of Scooter Libby, with its testimony about wars between the V.P.’s office and the White House, the White House and the C.I.A., and everyone against the State Department, proves that beyond a reasonable doubt.

[shoebooty]

He is such a simpleton. He has no concept of what this country is up against, nor does he live in reality.

[Cicero]

Internally divided, no. But the bureaucracy is riddled with malign carterites and clintonoids, who poison everything they touch and leak classified secrets to the press. If Bush can be faulted, it is for that--for not weeding out all the criminal leftists who infest the federal government.

But that's not what Friedman is talking about. Friedman is a moron. Hey, how's the Lexus and the Olive Tree these days, Tom? Is al Quaeda busy joining the consumer society, like you predicted?

[Rummyfan]

Tuck Fomas Friedman! A functional idiot.....

[sgtbono2002]

Gee and here I was thinking Edwards, and Hillary and Kerry all wanted do-overs.

[Enchante]

Glad I don't waste money for "NY Times Select" so I won't have to bother reading this tripe.

Thomas Friedman is one of the most over-rated people in the history of journalism. How this sluggard won 3 Pulitzer Prizes will be an enduring mystery......

[A message]

Yep, I looked to see who wrote this tripe and my first thought was, who cares what Friedman has to say.

Simpleton is an accurate description of Friedman.

[Enchante]

Talking about State and CIA as though they were any part of the "internal division" of the Bush administration is proof of incompetence. They are the "shadow government" of liberals, far-leftists, and merely dull bureaucrats that any Republican administration has to contend with as foreign entities. Only an idiot or an ignoramus could gloss over the anti-WH behavior of State and CIA the way Friedman does in his opening.

[highlander_UW]

In fact, my bet is that when the inside history of the Bush team is written, we will discover that, contrary to its carefully managed image of a disciplined core operating from consistent, conservative principles, it has actually been one of the most internally divided administrations — ever. The only thing the Bush folks all agreed on was that they would never do anything Bill Clinton did. Beyond that, it’s been a food fight. The trial of Scooter Libby, with its testimony about wars between the V.P.’s office and the White House, the White House and the C.I.A., and everyone against the State Department, proves that beyond a reasonable doubt.

So he's really not concerned about the correctness of policy but what inside struggles there may or may not have been to arrive at decisions? Typical liberal...concerned about the show and not substance.

[Melchior]

This is an article written by a petulant little boy who is on the outside looking in through a glass darkly.