The other day I showed this video of Tom Friedman's macho posturing on Iraq back from 2003.

Media Bloodhound looks at this op-ed Friedman wrote this week, on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary and Gen. Petraeus's testimony before Congress:

That he believes, or is simply promoting, this idea - the emptiness of Arab dictatorships is one of the "most troubling lessons of the Iraq invasion" - is not only chilling in both its inhumanity and disregard for the rule of domestic and international law (does he forget we illegally invaded a sovereign nation under false pretenses?), but also, contextually, all the more stunning in its willful obliviousness to what is undeniably one of the worst - if not the worst - American foreign policy decisions in our nation's history. Yet this characteristically disingenuous Friedman narrative serves as the perfect moral blank check for the Bush administration, a timely tonic that encourages us to continue to shove "democracy" down the Iraqis' throats at the barrel of a gun while it simultaneously provides a rhetorical exit strategy if that just refuses to take: if only those Iraqis really wanted democracy, our illegal, unprovoked invasion of their country - which now accounts for nearly 4,000 deaths of American servicemen and women and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis - would be a success.