The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Tuesday, May 16, 2006  

STRING TOGETHER ENOUGH SIX MONTHS
And You've Got War for Eternity

Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) put out an interesting release today, "Tom Friedman's Flexible Deadlines," about New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman's penchant for looking out just, and almost always just, six months when it comes to his predictions of a quick resolution of the internecine warfare in, and the political and economic shambles that is, Iraq.

FAIR catches Friedman playing this futile cat-and-mouse game more than a dozen times since November 2003 ("The next six months in Iraq—which will determine the prospects for democracy-building there—are the most important six months in U.S. foreign policy in a long, long time.") and last week ("Well, I think that we're going to find out . . .in the next year to six months -- probably sooner -- whether a decent outcome is possible there, and I think we're going to have to just let this play out.")

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