Thomas Friedman Asks “Should We Be Arming ISIS?” Better Q: Why Are We Reading Thomas Friedman?
20th March 2015
Nick Gillespie isn’t afraid to ask the easy questions.
What is it that Don Draper tells Peggy in that episode of Mad Men when she gives birth to an unintended baby? Something like “Don’t look back, there’s nothing for you there. Keep moving forward.”
I thought of that moment while reading Thomas Friedman’s column about the Islamic State and the Middle East in The New York Times.
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Oddly, Friedman is absolutely uninterested in pausing for a second and asking his assistants to rummage through his own archives. There, he would find voluminous words from the man himself pushing for the very courses of action he now tut-tuts.