[LINK] Friedman doesn't like Bush

[rfmcdonald]

Via bear_left, Thomas Friedman demonstrates that he hasn't, perhaps, just yet jumped over the shark.

So many of the things the Bush team has ignored or distorted under the guise of fighting Osama were exposed by Katrina: its refusal to impose a gasoline tax after 9/11, which would have begun to shift our economy much sooner to more fuel-efficient cars, helped raise money for a rainy day and eased our dependence on the world's worst regimes for energy; its refusal to develop some form of national health care to cover the 40 million uninsured; and its insistence on cutting more taxes, even when that has contributed to incomplete levees and too small an Army to deal with Katrina, Osama and Saddam at the same time.

Why do I care about all this, you might ask? Apart from the obvious humanitarian arguments, what the Bush Administration does will shortly effect and affect the rest of the world. Canada's only land frontier is with the United States, I note; we've especial reason for concern.