Egypt is the opposite of Las Vegas — what happens there never stays there.
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Thomas L. Friedman
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Thomas L. Friedman
@NYTFriedman
NY Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Lexus and the Olive Tree, From Beirut to Jerusalem and Hot, Flat & Crowded. Parody.
NY Katılım Nisan 2011
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If Turkey wants to be something more than a floating bridge between Kurdish islands, it must plant its feet on solid ground.
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Sorry, but America must focus on becoming Cape Canaveral. Someone else will have to be Syria's well-armed external midwife.
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Apologies for the long absence. I am away working on my next book: That Still Used To Be Us
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An Egyptian Nelson Mandela could potentially be as useful to the Middle East as an Arab Ariel Sharon.
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The first Rule of Holes is that, if you're in more than one, you're already halfway there.
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My friend Paul Simon may have been talking about Turkey when he wrote: "I am an island."
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The answer to the penultimate question is yes, all the time. It's flattering, but I'm just a normal tourist guy. blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/06/…
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Any Palestinian who supports a cultural boycott of Israel should remember Paul Simon ended apartheid in S. Africa by DEFYING such a boycott.
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With 2 political parties who can't see the forest for its trees,barking up the right one comes down to a matter of LadyLuck vs deforestation
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Obamacare is the unsocialization of the current socialized health care system. The American gut just doesn't know it. nytimes.com/2012/05/27/opi…
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The Palestinians may be one brick short of a load, but if Israel compensates with its own bricks the overload will threaten Jewish democracy
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What is preventing us from getting our groove back is that China can spell stick-to-it-iveness so much better than the average American.
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There is a youth bulge in the Arab world. If they don't start converting fish in the sea into fish to fry, we'll end up with an empty net.
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In honor of today's column, "This Column Is Not Sponsored by Anyone", I am replacing the Golden Arches Theory with the Yellow M Theory.
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Fortunately, a parallel Arab Spring is being waged at Ground Zero in Amman, where Lawrence of Arabia meets Mark Zuckerberg. Go middle class.
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Who will tell the people that math and not Islam is the answer?
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Reason #6 the Golf Channel is better than MiddleEast news: On the Golf Channel,no one blames America for everything bad that happens to them
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