Archive for the ‘friedman’ Category

Thomas Friedman: 9/11 and 4/11

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

What doesn't the Bush crowd get? It's this: We don't have a "gasoline price problem." We have an addiction problem. We are addicted to dirty fossil fuels, and this addiction is driving a whole set of toxic trends that are harming our nation and world in many different ways. It ...

Thomas Friedman: Charge It to My Kids

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Of course, we can pay for the Iraq war without a tax increase. The question is, can we pay for it and be making the investments in infrastructure, science and education needed to propel our country into the 21st century? Visit Singapore, Japan, Korea, China or parts of Europe today ...

Swift-Boated by bin Laden

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Consider what happened on Aug. 14. Four jihadist suicide-bombers blew themselves up in two Iraqi villages, killing more than 500 Kurdish civilians — men, women and babies — who belonged to a tiny pre-Islamic sect known as the Yazidis. And what was the Bush team’s response to this outrage? Virtual ...