Through the Looking Glass describes a new Thomas Friedman idiocy:
Tom Friedman has noticed that NATO has a whole lot of security problems in Arabia, since the folks down there regard the West generally, and America in particular, as tools of “the Jews”. His proposed solution: add Israel to the NATO alliance, making it explicitly a tool of “the Jews”, or at least the ones running Israel. But that won’t give NATO all the muscle it needs, so he also proposes adding Egypt, and making Egyptian troops, in the eyes of the Islamists, into tools of “the Jews” as well. Egypt, after all, has a “huge surplus of military manpower with little to do” — besides fighting off Egypt’s native Islamic extremists, who provided some of the key people to al-Qaeda and have been around for decades. And of course, we should also add the new government of Iraq, once it exists and has proved to the satisfaction of everyone concerned that it is not itself a neo-colonial project of “the Jews”, or such Western tools of “the Jews” (in Islamist eyes) as Dick Cheney and, er… Paul Wolfowitz. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that last bit.