{"id":459,"date":"2007-08-19T09:22:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T13:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2010-07-09T07:16:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T12:16:27","slug":"go-suck-a-lemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"Go suck a lemon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps by way of an apology, Tom Friedman<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

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Is the surge in Iraq working? That is the question that Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker will answer for us next month. I, alas, am not interested in their opinions.<\/p>\n

It is not because I don\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt hold both men in very high regard. I do. But I\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdm still not interested in their opinions. I\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdm only interested in yours. Yes, you \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd the person reading this column. You know more than you think.<\/p>\n

You see, I have a simple view about both Arab-Israeli peace-making and Iraqi surge-making, and it goes like this: Any Arab-Israeli peace overture that requires a Middle East expert to explain to you is not worth considering. It\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds going nowhere.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here<\/a> (again<\/a>) is something even you–the people who read Tom Friedman's column–can understand:<\/p>\n

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What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, "Which part of this sentence don't you understand?"<\/p>\n

You don't think, you know, we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we're just gonna to let it grow?<\/p>\n

Well, Suck. On. This.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Okay.<\/p>\n

That Charlie was what this war was about. We could've hit Saudi Arabia, it was part of that bubble. We coulda hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now that makes perfect sense. I don't need a Middle East expert to explain that to me. (h\/t atrios <\/a>for the transcript).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps by way of an apology, Tom Friedman writes: Is the surge in Iraq working? That is the question that Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker will answer for us next month. I, alas, am not interested in their opinions. It is not because I don\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt hold both men in very high regard. … Continue reading Go suck a lemon<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inexplicable","category-thomas-friedman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}