Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Thomas Friedman does one of his typical adjustment to news that contradicts what he had written

"The fact that the Muslim Brotherhood and the even more fundamentalist Salafist Nour Party have garnered some 65 percent of the votes in the first round of Egypt’s free parliamentary elections since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak should hardly come as a surprise."  Not a surprise?  Maybe not to others, but certainly to you.  You are the one who kept writing that the Egyptian people don't want ideologies and don't want foreign policy and that all they want are economic issues.  You wrote that throughout your stay at the Marriott in Cairo during the uprising. Not surprised? You?