Tom Friedman will never ever get tired of telling Iraqis to ‘suck on this’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/16/tom-friedman-will-never-ever-get-tired-of-telling-iraqis-to-suck-on-this/



Tom Friedman will never ever get tired of telling Iraqis to ‘suck on this’
By TBogg
Monday, June 16, 2014 16:39 EDT

Walking TED talk and taxi-driver-chatter-upper Tom Friedman is obviously not a big fan of Iraq. Possibly because it doesn’t seem like a place where Apple would extend their global empire; building factories full of low-wage worker bees churning out iToothbrushes or whatever the hell they are going to iMake next in an effort to suck every last dollar out of every last wallet before Steve Jobs returns to Earth to take them all to iHeaven.

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Back in 2003 he explained that there was this bubble, you see. And it was kind of like the tech bubble, but not quite. It was a terrorism bubble and, instead of being full of pet.com or webvan.com or hotnakedphyllisschlafly.com, it was full of swarthy people with box cutters who hated our freedom and our open society and our innate God-given goodness.
Also, probably our Apple products.

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Either way, to Tom Friedman it didn’t matter because, as Tom Friedman so eloquently put it in Aspen Institute terms, this ‘bubble thing’ had to be dealt with:

….there was only one way to do it because part of that bubble said ‘we’ve got you’ this bubble is actually going to level the balance of power between us and you because we don’t care about life, we’re ready to sacrifice and all you care about is your stock options and your hummers. And what they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house from Basra to Baghdad uhm, and basically saying ‘which part of this sentence don’t you understand?’. You don’t think we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy we’re going to just let it go, well suck on this. Okay. That, Charlie, was what this war was about. We could have hit Saudi Arabia. It was part of that bubble. We could have hit Pakistan, We hit Iraq, because we could. And that’s the real truth. “