Robert Scheer: On to the Next ‘Bubble Fantasy’ - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig

Robert Scheer: On to the Next ‘Bubble Fantasy’ - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig: Few journalists have greater influence on U.S. foreign policy, particularly regarding the Middle East, than New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. But his tortured obit of a column this week on the official end of the neocolonialist disaster that has been the Iraq occupation reminds one that the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner often gets it wrong.