Robert Parry: NYT's Friedman Should Resign

once upon a time, i thought friedman was a pretty savvy guy... i guess that was back in the days when i was still working on retrieving my head from my ass...

It may be positive news that the likes of Friedman and Cohen have finally acknowledged realities long apparent to many other Americans. Still, the halfhearted mea culpas – often combined with continued slights against those who were right – fall far short of the accountability that the deaths and maiming of so many people would seem to justify.

Under principles of international law applied from Nuremberg to Rwanda, propagandists who contribute to war crimes or encourage crimes against humanity can be put in the dock alongside the actual killers.

Though such a fate may not await America’s pro-war pundits, Friedman and other commentators who helped ease the way to Bush’s unprovoked invasion of Iraq and thus contributed to the ongoing slaughters in the Middle East might at least have the decency to admit their incompetence and resign.

i completely agree... folks like friedman - and there are plenty more out there - have pissed away their credibility to the extent that they can never get it back... how can they possibly expect anyone to pay the slighest bit of attention to them from here on out...? moreover, like parry points out, they are complicit in war crimes...

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