Back in 2009, heavily remunerated multi-Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman – who has been employed by the US newspaper of record since 1981 – wrote with characteristic eloquence: “Many big bad things happen in the world without America, but not a lot of big good things.”
This was presumably news to the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the myriad other locations on the planet that have been on the receiving end of “big good things” from America.
Sadly, according to Friedman, the United States has lost its way in recent years, afflicted by a crippling partisan “polarisation” that is preventing it from being the best big good superpower it can be. . . .
In his January 2021 New York Times column titled Biden-Cheney 2024?, Friedman urges the US to recuperate its democracy by following in the footsteps of Israel, where a new national unity government . . . has been “getting stuff done and muting the hyperpolarisation that was making Israel ungovernable”. Indeed, nothing says democracy like a racist apartheid state that bombs, tortures, and ethnically cleanses Palestinians. READ MORE AT AL JAZEERA ENGLISH.