Stubborn Reality

The good Doctor Horsefeathers has an opinion on Tom Friedman's new book The World is Flat and the social delusions that it represents:

It's just a pose, allowing Friedman to fulfill his primary function as an emotional healer whose higher task is to reassure the Liberal wordsmith classes of their own superior intelligence and goodness. There's no need for critical thinking with Tom Friedman around to offer Liberal cant in answer to real world problems, whether concerning Economics or War. The Muslim world hates us? Enemies actually want to slaughter us infidels? Close Gitmo and show what caring people we truly are. In the fantasy world of Liberal utopians we have no enemies, only potential friends who don't realize how nice we are. Have our war casualties been historically minimal? Well let's fight a war with no casualties at all. Then we'll feel so much better about ourselves.

Fantastic post -- read the whole thing.