Yeah, but you got to savor the irony of this coming from a devoted Bush-fluffer and unabashed Iraq warmonger. That this moron still has gainful employment anywhere in the political press is a sign as bad as any as to the state of the U.S. Fourth Estate. Moreover, if you look somewhat more closely at his nonsense, you find expressions like this - "Out here everyone gets it" - which he cannot possibly support, and calling TPP a "treaty", which it isn't, which again means that the arrogant slob hasn't learned a thing, particularly not any respect for language. That latter, of course, separates the dwindling honest bunch from sleazebags like Friedman.