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| John Lukacs |
A thought to ponder:
The true patriot . . . is often the kind of thinking person who is bitterly critical of, because he is deeply concerned with, the faults of his own people.
Thursday, January 9, 2020
A Thought to Ponder from John Lukacs
Thomas Friedman on the Folly of Trump-Iran
Thomas Friedman looking beyond the immediate headlines. My summary: we need to end our addiction (yes, ADDICTION) to fossil fuels. Our addiction is literally killing us. Dying to get more of what's killing us is the life of a drug addict. Leave the oil in the ground, and let the Sunnis and Shias to fight if they choose. Let's leave oil in the ground and leave the Middle East as a permanent war project. Friedman:
"When I step back and get some distance on this latest clash between President Trump and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, it becomes obvious to me that what we have here are two bald men fighting over a comb.
We have two old men, with old ideas, fighting over a country that neither should want — Iraq — and over a 20th-century resource — oil — that is decreasingly relevant to a 21st-century nation’s economy and for a strategic goal — to dominate the Middle East — that no sane leader should want to achieve, because all that you win is a bill.
In short, it’s just so much fury that will change so little.
Which is why, when I hear Fox News’ flag-waving commentators claiming that those who don’t support Trump in his careening around the Middle East are being unpatriotic, I want to burst out laughing, because it is so pathetic."
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