More nonsense from Thomas Friedman

I really don't know why I continue to read the nonsense that comes from the cyber pen of Thomas Friedman. His inflated ego is in fine form today in Let's Talk About Iraq. So where do we start? How about the beginning?

Ever since Iraq's remarkable election, the country has been descending deeper and deeper into violence.

Yes it was remarkable Tom, people risked their lives to vote because they thought it was a way to get the Americans out.

But no one in Washington wants to talk about it.

Maybe not in Washington but people are talking about it everywhere else in the country and a majority are saying get the fuck out.

Conservatives don't want to talk about it because, with a few exceptions, they think their job is just to applaud whatever the Bush team does.

I gotta give ya that one Tom.

Liberals don't want to talk about Iraq because, with a few exceptions, they thought the war was wrong and deep down don't want the Bush team to succeed.

No Tom, we opposed the war because we knew the Bush team could not succeed.

The next paragraph is one Tom's patented hallucigenic delusional visions of the world.

Well, we need to talk about Iraq. This is no time to give up - this is still winnable - but it is time to ask: What is our strategy? This question is urgent because Iraq is inching toward a dangerous tipping point - the point where the key communities begin to invest more energy in preparing their own militias for a scramble for power - when everything falls apart, rather than investing their energies in making the hard compromises within and between their communities to build a unified, democratizing Iraq.

He goes on to admit that Rumsfeld totally screwed it up but then there is this.

Maybe it is too late, but before we give up on Iraq, why not actually try to do it right? Double the American boots on the ground and redouble the diplomatic effort to bring in those Sunnis who want to be part of the process and fight to the death those who don't.

Double the number of troops Tom? You apparently have not been reading your own paper. People have quit joining the army; we don't have enough "boots" to sustain the troop levels we have now.

I don't know what Thomas Friedman is smoking but I sure want some.