Friedman back but he's still not sober

Thomas Friedman has returned to the NYT but it would appear he is still as delusional as Bush but is able to come up with a list of things the administration has done wrong.
He remains delusional about Iraq thinking there is still something there to salvage and talking like real elections are somehow a possibility. I guess he hasn't been reading the Times while he was away writing his book. Boy, and I can't wait for that book, I haven't read a good fantasy for a long time.
In his whatever induced fog he is still able to come up with a pretty good litany of things this administration did wrong.

....each time the Bush team had to choose between doing the right thing in the war on terrorism or siding with its political base and ideology, it chose its base and ideology. More troops or radically lower taxes? Lower taxes. Fire an evangelical Christian U.S. general who smears Islam in a speech while wearing the uniform of the U.S. Army or not fire him so as not to anger the Christian right? Don't fire him. Apologize to the U.N. for not finding the W.M.D., and then make the case for why our allies should still join us in Iraq to establish a decent government there? Don't apologize - for anything - because Karl Rove says the "base" won't like it. Impose a "Patriot Tax" of 50 cents a gallon on gasoline to help pay for the war, shrink the deficit and reduce the amount of oil we consume so we send less money to Saudi Arabia? Never. Just tell Americans to go on guzzling. Fire the secretary of defense for the abuses at Abu Ghraib, to show the world how seriously we take this outrage - or do nothing? Do nothing. Firing Mr. Rumsfeld might upset conservatives. Listen to the C.I.A.? Only when it can confirm your ideology. When it disagrees - impugn it or ignore it.

He then slips back into fantasy land suggesting that politicians might actually put politics aside for the good of the country.

We have to immediately get the Democratic and Republican politics out of this policy and start honestly reassessing what is the maximum we can still achieve there and what every American is going to have to do to make it happen.

So Tom, are you going get treatment or just become another "dry drunk" like Bush.