Friedman 2005: Arm Shiites to fight Sunnites. Friedman 2015: Arm sunni ISIS to fight shiite Iran.

[DetlefK]

http://www.salon.com/2015/03/18/thomas_friedman_asks_if_us_should_arm_isis_to_fix_problems_created_by_policies_he_supported/

Excerpts:

"Now I despise ISIS as much as anyone, but let me just toss out a different question: Should we be arming ISIS? Or let me ask that differently: Why are we, for the third time since 9/11, fighting a war on behalf of Iran?"
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"I simply raise this question rhetorically because no one else is: Why is it in our interest to destroy the last Sunni bulwark to a total Iranian takeover of Iraq?"

[Fred Sanders]

1. Another corporate media hack pretending he knows more than fuck all about foreign affairs.

When you have a media that disappears all history it is easy to be a political hypocrit.

Remember The Dixie Chicks!

[JHB]

2. He raises the question rhetorically because...

...he doesn't want the actual answer.

[hatrack]

3. But Tom! What about the next 3 to 6 months? Will they be critical?

[CJCRANE]

4. ...

[geek tragedy]

5. World's biggest wanker wanks nt