Posts Tagged ‘Thomas Friedman’

Thomas Friedman on Why CNN Shouldn’t Have Fired Octavia Nasr

In fame, History, News, Opinion, Politics on 18 July 2010 tagged @OctaviaNasrCNN, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Middle East, New York Times, Octavia Nasr, Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Thomas Friedman with no comments

Thomas Friedman‘s Op-Ed for the Friday New York Times took a belated (8 days had transpired before Friedman penned his piece) look at CNN’s firing of Senior Middle East Affairs Editor Octavia Nasr. To Friedman, though Nasr’s Twitter message may have highlighted a lack of proper forethought on Nasr’s part, it was not a fireable [...]

Rahm Emanuel : U.S. Fed Up With Israel, but Won’t Walk Away

In News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics on 6 January 2010 tagged Counsel General, Haaretz, Israel, Jacob Dayan, Obama Administration, Palestine, rahm emanuel, Thomas Friedman, White House Chief of Staff with no comments

Could White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel be taking a page from Thomas Friedman’s Palestine-Israel playbook? Apparently, some media outlets have spun Emanuel’s comments during a meeting with consul general of Israel, Jacob Dayan to mean that Emanuel wants the White House to walk away from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Both the White House and [...]

Friedman on Peace Process : America Should ‘Get Out of The Picture’

In History, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, Racism, War on 8 November 2009 tagged Arab, Barack Hussein Obama, Bill Clinton, Editorial, George Shultz, Goldstone Report, Hamas, Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton, Israel, James Baker, Jimmy Carter, New York Times, Obama Administration, Opinion, Palestine, Secretary of State, Thomas Friedman, United Nations, United States of America with 1 comment

In an opinion piece for the New York Times, Thomas Friedman, asserts that the United States should abandon the Palestinian-Israeli peace process altogether because it has become a play of the same script different cast: The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become a bad play. It is obvious that all the parties are just acting out [...]

Video : Hamid Karzai on Farid Zakaria GPS, ‘I’m Known for Consensus’

In Afghanistan, citizenship, Crime, News, Opinion, pakistan, Politics, TV, War on 26 October 2009 tagged Admiral Mullen, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CNN, Department of State, Development, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Dr. Ashraf Ghani, ECC, Election, Election Fraud, Electoral Complaints Commission, Fareed Zakaria, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Gordon Brown, GPS, Hamid Karzai, IEC, Independent Election Commission, Insurgency, insurgent, John Kerry, Kabul, Karl W. Eikenberry, Maulavi Mustafa Barakzai, Minister of Foreign Affairs, NATO, New York Times, pakistan, Pashtun, Presidential Election, rahm emanuel, Reconstruction, Richard Holbrooke, run-off, runoff, runoff election, September 11, Shakespeare, Special Envoy, suicide bomb, taliban, Thomas Friedman, Turkey, UN, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, UNSC, Video, Vote Fraud, Voter Fraud, war on terror, Washington, Waziristan, World Bank, Zakaria GPS with 1 comment

Hamid Karzai says that all parties involved have had made mistakes over the past 8 years and speaks well about wanting to make the best decisions for a nation in the situation that Afghanistan is in, which are all fairly by the book positions for an unpopular President facing charges of illegitimacy at home and [...]

Thomas Friedman on Obama’s De-Legitimizers and the Loss of a United American Ideal

In Afghanistan, citizenship, Crime, History, Iraq, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, Racism, War on 30 September 2009 tagged Afghanistan, climate change, deficit, delegitimation, Editorial, Health Care, Healthcare, Iraq, Iraq War, New York Times, Op-ed, Oslo Accords, Recession, Thomas Friedman, we, Yitzhak Rabin with no comments

In an Op-Ed for the New York Times, Thomas Friedman states his fear that the current hostile attitudes against United States President Barack Hussein Obama not only resemble attitudes in Israel before the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, but that these attacks put an end to the idea of a united American identity. [...]