Alas, I Don’t Think 6 Months Will Help This Make Sense
Shorter Tom Friedman: Nobody could have anticipated that invading Iraq would do far more for Iranian interests than American ones. You are still supposed to care about my foreign policy views for some reason.
You know, I’m almost beginning to think that scorching hot non-sequiturs up to and including calling something that isn’t anything like a bubble a “bubble” are not a sound basis for reasoning about foreign policy. I’d also recommend not supporting wars if you don’t “understand what they were about” contemporaneously.