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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen the young women of Egypt need answers, they turn to Tom Friedman
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/06/11/when_the_young_women_of_egypt_need_answers_they_turn_to_tom_friedmanHere's how the New York Times' Thomas Friedman began his column on April 12, 2011:
When I was in Cairo during the Egyptian uprising, I wanted to change hotels one day to be closer to the action and called the Marriott to see if it had any openings. The young-sounding Egyptian woman who spoke with me from the reservations department offered me a room and then asked: Do you have a corporate rate? I said, I dont know. I work for The New York Times. There was a silence on the phone for a few moments, and then she said: Can I ask you something? Sure. Are we going to be O.K.? Im worried.
Here's his column from this Sunday's paper:
I HAD just finished a panel discussion on Turkey and the Arab Spring at a regional conference here, and, as I was leaving, a young Egyptian woman approached me. Mr. Friedman, could I ask you a question? Who should I vote for?
I thought: Why is she asking me about Obama and Romney? No, no, she explained. It was her Egyptian election next week that she was asking about. Should she vote for Mohamed Morsi, the candidate of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, or Ahmed Shafiq, a retired general who served as Hosni Mubaraks last prime minister and was running as a secular law-and-order candidate?
I thought: Why is she asking me about Obama and Romney? No, no, she explained. It was her Egyptian election next week that she was asking about. Should she vote for Mohamed Morsi, the candidate of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, or Ahmed Shafiq, a retired general who served as Hosni Mubaraks last prime minister and was running as a secular law-and-order candidate?
Is Friedman just being constantly accosted by anxious young Egyptian women seeking his sage advice about the future of their country? Isn't there anyone else they could talk to?
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When the young women of Egypt need answers, they turn to Tom Friedman (Original Post)
Enrique
Jun 2012
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patrice
(47,992 posts)1. Disgusting! EXPLOITATION of Women.
tralala
(239 posts)2. Thomas Friedman is horrible
He is the go-to pundit for the middle-class/middle-brow; cf. Fareed Zakaria
senseandsensibility
(17,056 posts)3. Anyone who asks him for advice about ANYTHING
is truly ignorant. And his ego is only matched by his incompetence.
Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)4. And this last one didn't even have the decency to be driving a taxicab! n/t