Flash. Thomas Friedman is a deep thinker. Thomas Friedman is a deep thinker. Read all about it. Evidence? Look: he used the word "geopolitics": "This is not a joke. If North Korea and Iran both go nuclear, that step may trigger a major realignment of geopolitics - the likes of which has not been seen since the end of the cold war." Does that not prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that he indeed is a deep thinker?