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Oct. 1st, 2007 12:25 pmApparently Tom Friedman has poked his head up out of his hole and failed to see his own shadow, thus allowing him to stop shivering in the dark burrow and pissing himself about the big, bad, scary Muslims who are trying to kill us all:
9/11 has made us stupid. I honor, and weep for, all those murdered on that day. But our reaction to 9/11 — mine included — has knocked America completely out of balance, and it is time to get things right again.
It is not that I thought we had new enemies that day and now I don’t. Yes, in the wake of 9/11, we need new precautions, new barriers. But we also need our old habits and sense of openness. For me, the candidate of 9/12 is the one who will not only understand who our enemies are, but who we are.
Before 9/11, the world thought America’s slogan was: “Where anything is possible for anybody.” But that is not our global brand anymore. Our government has been exporting fear, not hope: “Give me your tired, your poor and your fingerprints.”
You may think Guantánamo Bay is a prison camp in Cuba for Al Qaeda terrorists. A lot of the world thinks it’s a place we send visitors who don’t give the right answers at immigration. I will not vote for any candidate who is not committed to dismantling Guantánamo Bay and replacing it with a free field hospital for poor Cubans. Guantánamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.
Yeah good luck with that, Tom. You and your fellow cheerleaders have made it nearly impossible for any candidate to seriously even posit such a thing let alone turn it into a viable campaign platform. But beyond that I know on some level I should be happy and relieved that yet another TRUE BELIEVER has finally woken up to reality and put down the Kool Aid but goddammit why did it take him 6 years to regain his testicular fortitude?
Also, Tom, I'd like to point out that 9/11 didn't make everybody stupid, just you and yours. So enough with the "hey we all fell down the rabbit hole for a while, but we're back now!" bullshit. Go straight to hell, Friedman, and I hope it doesn't take you a Friedman Unit to get there.
As usual the RudePundit puts it more succinctly than I:
Discover how, unlike Tom Friedman, the Rude Pundit has never had to offer a massive, embarrassing mea culpa for making a huge faux pas like trusting an oligarchy of inbred retards with the keys to the gun cabinet.
9/11 has made us stupid. I honor, and weep for, all those murdered on that day. But our reaction to 9/11 — mine included — has knocked America completely out of balance, and it is time to get things right again.
It is not that I thought we had new enemies that day and now I don’t. Yes, in the wake of 9/11, we need new precautions, new barriers. But we also need our old habits and sense of openness. For me, the candidate of 9/12 is the one who will not only understand who our enemies are, but who we are.
Before 9/11, the world thought America’s slogan was: “Where anything is possible for anybody.” But that is not our global brand anymore. Our government has been exporting fear, not hope: “Give me your tired, your poor and your fingerprints.”
You may think Guantánamo Bay is a prison camp in Cuba for Al Qaeda terrorists. A lot of the world thinks it’s a place we send visitors who don’t give the right answers at immigration. I will not vote for any candidate who is not committed to dismantling Guantánamo Bay and replacing it with a free field hospital for poor Cubans. Guantánamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.
Yeah good luck with that, Tom. You and your fellow cheerleaders have made it nearly impossible for any candidate to seriously even posit such a thing let alone turn it into a viable campaign platform. But beyond that I know on some level I should be happy and relieved that yet another TRUE BELIEVER has finally woken up to reality and put down the Kool Aid but goddammit why did it take him 6 years to regain his testicular fortitude?
Also, Tom, I'd like to point out that 9/11 didn't make everybody stupid, just you and yours. So enough with the "hey we all fell down the rabbit hole for a while, but we're back now!" bullshit. Go straight to hell, Friedman, and I hope it doesn't take you a Friedman Unit to get there.
As usual the RudePundit puts it more succinctly than I:
Discover how, unlike Tom Friedman, the Rude Pundit has never had to offer a massive, embarrassing mea culpa for making a huge faux pas like trusting an oligarchy of inbred retards with the keys to the gun cabinet.
