Tom Friedman Says China Is So Awesome

The Suggestion That Liberals Aren't Moralizers Is So Preposterous It Makes It Hard For Me To Take Any Of Them Seriously When They Wax Indignant About "moralizers." Almost Every Day, They Tell Us What Is Moral Or Immoral To Think And To Say About Race, Taxes, Abortion - You Name It. They Explain It Would Be Immoral For Me To Spend More Of My Own Money On My Own Children When That Money Could Be Spent By Government On Other People's Children. In Short, They Think Moralizing Is Fine. They Just Want To Have A Monopoly On The Franchise.

There Is No - Let Me Repeat - No Example In The Last Quarter-century Of A Large, Complex Economy That Has Been Successful With High Taxes.

(i)f France's Righteous Bloviating Against War Makes Them Your Dashboard Saint Of International Integrity, It's Either Because You Are Sand-poundingly Ignorant Of How The World Works Or It's Because You Think France's Self-interest Is More Important Than America's. If The Former Applies To You, Read A Book. If It's The Latter, Maybe You Should Move There Along With Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, And The Rest Of The Crowd Who Promised To Leave A Long Time Ago. But Whatever You Do, Don't Call France's Position Principled, Because That Just Insults Us Both.

America's Political System Used To Be About The Pursuit Of Happiness. Now More And More Of Us Want To Stop Chasing It And Have It Delivered.

The Truth Is France Has Been The Chief Western Advocate Of Normalizing Relations With Iraq - One Of Its Largest Trading Partners - For Years, Partly Because France Holds Billions In Ious From Iraq That Wouldn't Be Redeemable By A New Regime.