To people around the world: this guy is considered in the US a sophisticated foreign policy analyst--I am not diddling you

"Good for Al Gore for meeting with Donald Trump on Monday. Good for Ivanka Trump for inviting Gore to come in for a talk on climate change, and good for President-elect Trump for embracing the encounter."  I never thought I would miss William Safire, but I really do. At least he wrote well.  Thomas Friedman is a (clueless) child idea of what a foreign policy analyst should be.