"IT’S easy to be depressed about America these days. We’ve got messes aplenty abroad and the Republican-dominated House of Representatives is totally paralyzed. Indeed, the G.O.P.-led House has become a small-minded, parochial place, where collaboration is considered treason, where science is considered a matter of opinion, where immigration is considered a threat, where every solution is a suboptimal compromise enacted at midnight and where every day we see proof of the theory that America is a country that was 'designed by geniuses so that it could be run by idiots.'"
Don't get me wrong: I'm not fond of Republicans. I'm not fond of Democrats. I'm not fond of politicians.
But heck, I don't know how Friedman can come down on the House today, after witnessing Obama, Kerry and Hagel's recent Keystone Cop routine involving Syria.
Today's "deal" with Russia, providing Obama with a ladder to climb down from his tree, has compromised America's credibility and power of deterrence for years to come. (see: http://jgcaesarea.blogspot.co.il/2013/09/new-york-times-us-and-russia-reach-deal.html). Meanwhile, Assad will continue to terrorize Syrian civilians with the threat of sarin gas.
But why should Friedman, a would-be Middle East expert, express an opinion on anything so banal?
At a time like this, I suppose it's better to focus on jet engine parts.
