Showing posts with label NY Times Friedman in 2001 said Jetsons beat Flintstones. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 8, 2011

The Flintstones still robbing the Jetsons blind and killing them

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5/6/11, "Mark Steyn: Why Pakistan knew it could hide Osama," Orange County Register, Mark Steyn

"In the fall of 2001, discussing the collapse of the Taliban, Thomas Friedman, the in-house thinker at The New York Times, offered this bit of cartoon analysis:

"For all the talk about the vaunted Afghan fighters, this was a war between the Jetsons and the Flintstones – and the Jetsons won and the Flintstones know it."

But they didn't, did they? The Flintstones retreated to their caves, bided their time,
  • and a decade later


via Real Clear Politics