[Amelia]

Actually, this article makes a lot of good and right points. As always with Freidman, you have to look closely to see it, beyond the other things mixed in.

He was doing okay until the last 3 paragraphs, and even there he's not all wrong.

Friedman does understand the Arab mind, and so his writing is useful. (They do NOT think like Americans do.)

That being said, he's also fairly liberal, and I don't always agree with his conclusions.

[Cathryn Crawford]

I feel exactly the same way - it's nearly two different articles, isn't it?

I loved Friedman's "From Beirut to Jerusalem". I've heard his other book isn't as good, but I read his articles and mostly like them. He's not perfect in his opinions, but then, who is? :-)

[nana4bush]

He was doing okay until the last 3 paragraphs, and even there he's not all wrong.

I agree, I think his liberal mind got him off track by the end of the article.