friedman (WAS: internet & social control)

[Dave Monroe]

A.greed.  It was TL&TOT that really put me off TF,
whose column as reprinted in the local paper I'd
otherwise occasionally agree with, made him just
another pro-business (not necessarily vs.
anti-business, but perhaps uncritically pro-business)
liberal (liberal vs. leftist) to me.  Par for the
course in the Clinton/Gore era.  But you can imagine
how the Iraq stuff got to me, so ... so, again, you
can imagine both my sympathies with and misgivings
about BB's Jv.McW.  Not to mention my initial desire
to be with AN & MH's Empire, and my subsequent ...
befuddlement to exaspiration by/with it.  But, again,
centrifugal/centripetal ...

--- The Great Quail <quail at libyrinth.com> wrote:
> MalignD writes,
> 
> > For the record, I'm not a particular fan of
> > Friedman's and I found his comments, posted here,
> > re WMDs regrettable and wrong.  But to dismiss
> > him as an apologist ignores much that he's written
> > about Iraq that's highly critical of the Bush
> > administration, particularly the woeful state of
> > the post-war operation.
> 
> I agree with Malign on this one. I read all of
> Friedman's books, and I usually read his columns.
> While his personality can be, at times, grating,
> and I certainly understand why the far Lefties on
> the List find his politics reproachable, he is still
> a left-leaning moderate with a lot of sharp
> criticism for politics-as-they-are. Although I don't
> always agree with him, he usually writes something
> worth reading.

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