Tom Friedman Says China Is So Awesome

Not Reassuring When Weathermen Say 'today Will Be Terrible But Don't Worry It Won't Be As Terrible As Tomorrow Or Friday.

(j)ust To Clarify: If You Go Into Every Situation Saying There's Absolutely Nothing Worth Fighting Over, You Will Inevitably End Up On A Cot Sleeping Next To A Guy Named Tiny, Bringing Him Breakfast In His Cell Every Morning, And Spending Your Afternoons Ironing His Boxers. Or, In The Case Of The French, You Might Spend Your Afternoon Rounding Up Jews To Send To Germany, But You Get The Point.

(i)f France's Righteous Bloviating Against War Makes Them Your Dashboard Saint Of International Integrity, It's Either Because You Are Sand-poundingly Ignorant Of How The World Works Or It's Because You Think France's Self-interest Is More Important Than America's. If The Former Applies To You, Read A Book. If It's The Latter, Maybe You Should Move There Along With Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, And The Rest Of The Crowd Who Promised To Leave A Long Time Ago. But Whatever You Do, Don't Call France's Position Principled, Because That Just Insults Us Both.

One Of The Overriding Points Of Liberal Fascism Is That All Of The Totalitarian "isms" Of The Left Commit The Fallacy Of The Category Error. They All Want The State To Be Something It Cannot Be. They Passionately Believe The Government Can Love You, That The State Can Be Your God Or Your Church Or Your Tribe Or Your Parent Or Your Village Or All Of These Things At Once. Conservatives Occasionally Make This Mistake, Libertarians Never Do, Liberals Almost Always Do.

I Have A Simple Answer To Any American Patriot Who Claims That There Is No Conflict Between His Love Of Country And His Desire To Hitch Our Fate To The United Nations: “you're Mistaken.” And, Therefore, I'm Thinking Of Adding This Corollary To My General Rule Of Patriotism: The More Intellectually Consistent And Pro-u.n. You Are, The Less Patriotic You Are Likely To Be. I Haven't Thought That All The Way Through, But It Seems Right To Me.