You know who is more lame and cliche filled than Thomas Friedman? His best friend Michael Mandelbaum

"The biggest geopolitical divide in the world today “is between those countries who want their states to be powerful and those countries who want their people to be prosperous,” argues Michael Mandelbaum, professor of foreign policy at Johns Hopkins. "  So the US has not made the goal of making the US more and more powerful ahead of making the people prosperous? Who edits those articles in the Times? Is there no logic or intelligence editor for those articles?