Will the Green Lantern Work In Iraq? Give Me Six Months

I don’t disagree with Erik that Tony Blair is the person I least want to hear from about Iraq. But surely Tom Freidman is in the top 5. Some selected insights from Mr. Suck On This:

• “in Iraq today, my enemy’s enemy is my enemy.”
• “In a word, Maliki has been a total jerk.”
• “Maliki had a choice — to rule in a sectarian way or in an inclusive way — and he chose sectarianism.”  [Nobody could have predicted! –ed.]
• “Believe it or not, it’s not all about what we do and the choices we make. Arabs and Kurds have agency, too.”
• “Leadership matters.”

At least Friedman, unlike Blair, is skeptical about intervention, although if the president was inclined to I’m sure he’d come up with some rationalization to support it.  But that thinking this puerile can be so influential explains a lot about how the Iraq fiasco happened in the first place.