Friedman tells the US to grow up

The New York Times's Thomas L Friedman, one of the world's most important political commentators, has been arguing strongly in favour of war on Iraq, and has been highly critical of what he sees as hypocrisy on the part of "the Europeans". But in this op-ed he is vitriolic about the Bush administration's immature and isolationist attitude to international relations. "The Bush folks are big on attitude, weak on strategy and terrible at diplomacy ... Two years of their gratuitous bullying has made many people deaf to America's arguments. Too many people today no longer accept America's strength as a good thing. That is a bad thing." Surprisingly, Tony Blair gets a letoff as the only "adult" on the UN Security Council.
(From New York Times)