ALEX PAREENE
Yes, Thomas Friedman, friend to Turkey, places “humanitarian” in scare quotes. But there is his diagnosis: the sides are “out of balance.” Back to the center with you two! Everyone has to get back to the Thomas Friedman-defined “center!”
(Thomas Friedman knows how to solve this problem in the Gulf of Mexico, too: the oil must get back to the center of the pipe.)
“I have long had a soft spot for Turkey,” Friedman then says. Because “Turkey’s role” is “one of the critical pivot points that helps keep the world stable.” So… I guess traders calculate Turkey’s role to decide if they are bullish or bearish on world stability, then? That is, I think, what that means.
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via 3 Quarks Daily