“Tom Friedman: What does being right have to do with it?
By: John Amato @ 2:02 PM – PDT

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H/T to Kurtz for picking up his six month mantra.
Greg Sargent:
K, the transcript’s in. Here’s what Tom Friedman had to say to Howard Kurtz yesterday about Iraq:
You know, the problem with analyzing the story, Howie, is that it doesn’t — everyone, first of all, this is the most polarized story I’ve certainly written about, so everyone wants, basically, to be proven right, OK? So the left — people who hated the war, they want you to declare the war is over, finish, we give up. The right, just the opposite. But I’ve been trying to just simply track the situation on the ground. (Emphasis added.)
I don’t know, I kinda think being right on such matters as whether to fight a war might be important. Particularly if you’re Tom Friedman, the man whom wavering liberals trusted more than anyone else in the galaxy to interpret the Middle East for them in the runup to the Iraq war. Whether you were right about that or not should tell us a thing or two about the soundness of your judgments and doctrines. Yet in Friedman’s world, those who were right about Iraq couldn’t possibly have been motivated by reason or sound thinking. No, they were driven by emotion: they ‘hated’ the war….read on”