Posted by
Furious on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:33:27 AM
Tom Freidman has an op/ed in today's Times...So I react to it....
If you really read this absurd article, you will discover just how confused and illogical this man's comments are. Amazingly, he is thought of as one of the more intelligent members of the "peoples commitee" that is the Times editorial board.
He marvels at China's smokescreen (in more ways than one) that they scripted for an international audience; yet he begrudgingly acknowledges that they are by and large, a third world nation.
He saw one Chinese airport that impressed him (and probably would not be permitted access to the other, more primitive landing patches) and compares it to his hometown decades old commuter strip called La Guardia.
He points his arrogant, elitist finger at his own nation's weakening infrastructure and suggests that we are falling short of what China is doing; while never even hinting at the horrors going on behind the "bamboo curtain" that build theirs.
Friedman's world only extends to what he has seen. Everything else does not exist. No political prisons, no forced abortions, no forced conformity, no slave wages and no misery index is even hinted at.
It is to be expected, I guess, for a liberal like Freidman, to take the default position that always castigates America. There is almost never anything that is right with us that he points out. Nothing is perfect, but to applaude a police state's propaganda and in any way compare it to the greatest nation ever to exist, is really stale beer. What is the man's point? It appears to be: freedom is overrated and totalitarianism rocks because they have a nice airport.
I think liberals often embrace insanities simply because their core philosophy is so insane