I've thought for a long time that the New York Times' mega-columnist Thomas Friedman is a lightweight who retails bromides as deep insights. But today's column is (unwittingly) hilarious. Here's Big Tom:
I've been calling them "Generation Q" - the Quiet Americans, in the best sense of that term, quietly pursuing their idealism, at home and abroad.
Er - Graham Greene's The Quiet American, anyone? Funny thing is, I wrote this review of Friedman's The World is Flat:
Greene has Pyle travelling with books such as The Role of the West and The Challenge to Democracy. A modern-day Greene could substitute the works of the real-life Thomas Friedman - a contemporary quiet American.
