Nordlinger on Friedman

Many political bloggers and pundits have spent a great deal of time wee-weeing all over themselves about the "transformation" of NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman after 11 September. Jay Nordlinger is not one of them:

I once wrote, in despairing over Tom Friedman, that he �knows about 100 times more about the Middle East than most of us will ever know, in that he has devoted much of his career to that region.� He has won a thousand awards, has been accorded endless honor.

But it�s hard to see how his reputation as a sage can survive the columns he is writing.

Ouch.

[Posted at 21:12 CST on 03/26/02] [Link]