Mugger

Sadly, with speed of the blogosphere, Mugger seems late on everything. He still is an excellent essayist as he shows here taking Thomas Friedman to task:

That passes for humor in the Friedman playbook, which makes me think that even Kerry would be better company at a ballgame than jolly old Tom. He praises "41" for raising taxes, but reserves special accolades for the elder Bush's skill at building foreign alliances. "Mr. Bush chose not to invade Baghdad in 1991. Right or wrong [wrong, and one of the reasons the GOP stayed at home in November of '92], he felt that had he tried, he would have lost the coalition he had built up to evict Saddam from Kuwait. He obviously believed that the U.S. should never invade an Arab capital without a coalition that contained countries whose support mattered in that part of the world, such as France, Egypt, Syria or Saudi Arabia."
Friedman apparently wishes upon a lucky star that the country could go back to an era when the World Trade Center was still part of the NYC skyline. That kind of thinking, if taken seriously by politicians, is far more dangerous than Krugman's paranoid rants about taxes, a Bush draft and stolen elections.

Read the whole thing and enjoy his take on the Sox Series win, he suffered for a long time.