Thursday, March 23, 2017

The fables of Thomas Friedman

"I had several young Arabs from around the region tell me that when America lets its own leader get away with lying, hiding information and smearing the press or a political opponent, it is taken as a license by all Middle Eastern leaders, or the leaders of Turkey or Russia, to do the exact same thing and say: “See, the American president does it, why shouldn’t we?”"  I bet that this never happened. I bet that he made it up.  I mean, those young Arabs are not used to their leaders lying? Those Arab leaders never lied before Trump became president?